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At Rijksmuseum Boerhaave everything revolves around curiosity

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Discover science in Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, European Museum of the Year 2019. You see the most wonderful inventions and you can try out all sorts of things for yourself. Measure with old instruments, peek through a microscope and test your own knowledge.

Those who travel to the Golden Age on Treasure Island Boerhaave go on a real voyage of discovery. Here you can find your way with the help of the stars and the sun, find strange animals and plants and do all kinds of experiments. Or see what a surgeon had in his closet. Brrrr, is that a saw? What does a doctor do with that?

Look out your eyes

From old-fashioned doctor's practices to the latest innovations in medicine: you'll learn all about it at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave. It is very special to see the first artificial kidney and artificial lung. By the way, this museum is full of masterpieces, such as Christiaan Huygens' first telescope with which he discovered the rings around Saturn, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's microscope, Albert Einstein's fountain pen and the ultra-fast computer Qubit. Also special is the oldest planetarium in the world with the sun at its centre. Some of the inventions are replicas that you can work with yourself.

Anatomical Theatre

In the Anatomical Theatre - the only one in the Netherlands - you travel through five centuries of scientific history. This theatre is a replica of the one that opened the University of Leiden in 1594. Hanged criminals were cut open to show what people look like inside. Whoever paid could come and see! But only in winter, because in summer the corpses disintegrated too quickly. That's why a wonderful cabinet of curiosities was built where you can marvel at strange and beautiful objects from distant worlds.

Lovely for children

For children there are many experiments and games to do. For example, they can go out with a doctor's bag and listen to their own heartbeat. Or get to work in the MaakStudio.

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