Fries Landbouw Museum - 4 Things to Know Before Visiting

The Fries Museum is dedicated to Friesland and the Frisian people. Its activities revolve around the eleven cities that make up the province and the surrounding countryside. The collection of the Fries Museum consists of 1 million objects and is dedicated to arts, crafts, and history from the years 1200 to 2000. Around 8000 objects are currently on display in the museum. The most iconic objects in the museum are the Hindelooper Room, the Popta Treasure and the legendary sword of Grote Pier.

The Blokhuispoort is a complex of buildings that served as a detention center in the city of Leeuwarden until December 2007 . The current building was built in the second half of the nineteenth century on the site where a prison already stood around 1500. It has undergone many adaptations and extensions over the centuries and has served as a prison since 1580. In its present form, the complex is 130 years old and has 180 cells.

Museum De Grutterswinkel is a museum in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden. The grocery store is located in a five - bay building from 1596. The facade has a checkered cornice and the central window is decorated with Rococo carvings . The building is a national monument . It was a mayor's residence and housed a coppersmith . In 1901 , the Feenstra family started out as a wholesaler in groats and colonial goods . Later it became a shop.

The Princessehof Ceramics Museum, located in the Leeuwarden, showcases a beautiful collection of ceramic, tiles, pottery and ceramic sculpture housed in a luxurious 18th century palace. The museum has a café and often hosts visiting art exhibitions. The museum also permanently exhibits the former studio of the Dutch ceramist Jan van der Vaart.

The Oldehove is a leaning and unfinished church tower in the medieval centre of the Dutch city of Leeuwarden. The height of the tower is 39 metres. The tower has 183 steps. The top of the tower is displaced horizontally 2 metres from the centre. The original plan included attaching a new church to the tower, which would replace the old saint vitus church, but this was never realized. Custodian of the tower is Historisch Centrum Leeuwarden.

The Slauerhoffbrug is a fully automatic bascule bridge in the city of Leeuwarden in the Netherlands. It is a road bridge that carries the Slauerhoffweg over the Harlingervaart. The bridge uses two arms to swing a section of road in and out of place. This movable bridge is also known as the “Slauerhoffbrug ‘Flying’ Drawbridge”. One of the main designers is Emile Asari. A tail bridge can quickly and efficiently be raised and lowered from one pylon.