Leiden is an old university city, so all those academic
minds were concentrated on creating history and culture and sharing it with
everyone who drops by. There are several interesting places that you can
visit.the first one is the Museum Boerhaave. It is a medical museum housed in
an old hospital, and you can find a few gory things like a skeleton collection,
preserved limbs, artificial hips and a seventeenth century bleeding bowl.
Second
is the National Museum of Antiquities, with its 6000 objects from ancient
Egypt, Greece and Rome and from the earliest evidence of life in the
Netherlands.
Third is the De Valk Municipal Windmill Museum where you
can learn what life in a working windmill used to be like. And the last one if
you're really a glutton for information and education, the Regional Archives
Museum is the one for you: six kilometers of documents are stored there, some
over 700 years old. The archives are mostly in Dutch, of course, but after a
couple of days in Leiden museums you should be fluent anyway.
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