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1. Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde (National Ethnography Museum)
Japan has pride of place in a museum that is the legacy of German-born Philipp Franz von Siebold. Between...
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2. Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal
This fine 17th-century guildhall is now home to Leiden's municipal museum. Its collection of paintings...
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3. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities)
No visit to Leiden is complete without seeing this museum, the most comprehensive of its kind in the...
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4. Leiden American Pilgrim Museum
This museum occupies a 16th-century house where one of the Pilgrim families may have lodged. Here you...
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5. Naturalis (National Museum of Natural History)
If you follow the signposting around the modernistic hospital, behind it you'll find the old sanatorium,...
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6. Molen Museum (Windmill Museum) De Valk
This small museum, in a monumental windmill nicknamed "the Falcon," which sticks up like a sore thumb...
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The Best of NileGuide
- Whether you're an art lover, history buff, culture vulture or just plain curious, the museums of Leiden are not to be missed. The brightest and best artifacts are waiting to reveal Leiden's soul. See what all the fuss is about, and learn a thing or two along the way. Travel never felt so enlightening.
