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Eise Eisinga Planetarium
0.29km from Kaatsmuseum
The Eise Eisinga Planetarium from the late 18th century is the oldest working planetarium in the world. The planetarium represents the values of the Enlightenment and of the long regional and cultural tradition of the 'lay scholar'. The house and its planetarium was purchased by the Dutch state in 1825, and later given to the city of Franeker which exploits it as a museum.
Gemeentemuseum het Hannemahuis
8.13km from Kaatsmuseum
The Hannemahuis is the municipal museum , located in a patrician house in the center of the Frisian city of Harlingen. Objects are collected and exhibited that are closely related to the history and art history of Harlingen , such as Harlinger tile and pottery, maritime objects, ancient paintings, photographs , silverware , various old documents and furniture . There is also a Simon Vestdijk room.
Poptaslot
12.89km from Kaatsmuseum
Poptaslot is a type of luxurious house often used by and/or built for the nobility of Frisia, many of which are built to look like castles (the term literally means "stone-house")—in the Dutch province of Friesland . It was founded somewhere between 1512 and 1525, probably by Sasker van Camstra. It was probably named Heringastate when it was founded, using his mother’s surname Heringa. Around 1631 it was significantly changed and modernised.
Titus Brandsma Museum
13.79km from Kaatsmuseum
The Titus Brandsma Museum is a museum in the Frisian city of Bolsward that is dedicated to Titus Brandsma , who was born near the city. Exhibitions are about the life of and the memory of this Frisian Carmelite and professor of philosophy and mysticism who died in Dachau during the Second World War. The permanent collection includes some of Brandsma's personal belongings and writings, including an overcoat.
Slauerhoffbrug (Flying Drawbridge)
15.14km from Kaatsmuseum
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.
Fries Landbouw Museum
16.67km from Kaatsmuseum
The Fries Landbouwmuseum is a museum on the south side of the city of Leeuwarden with the theme of agriculture. The farmhouse was built in a transitional style in 1908 by order of the Sint Anthonygasthuis to a design by Willem Cornelis de Groot. The bell of Saint Anthony is depicted on a stone in the facade of the house . The building is a national monument. The collection consists of 6000 objects, many of which are agricultural implements.
Pier Pandertempel
16.75km from Kaatsmuseum
Pier Pander Museum is a museum in Leeuwarden for the artistic legacy of the Frisian sculptor Pier Pander (1864-1919). The creation of the Pier Pander Museum Leeuwarden in 1954 is on Nicolaas Petrus de Koo to thank.
Oldehove
16.77km from Kaatsmuseum
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.
Ceramics Museum Princessehof
16.9km from Kaatsmuseum
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.
Historisch Centrum Leeuwarden
16.92km from Kaatsmuseum
The Historical Center Leeuwarden is the information and activity center for the history of Leeuwarden and the surrounding area.Thousands of meters of historical documents, from the Middle Ages to the present, are kept here and made accessible. Anyone who wants to know something about the history of Leeuwarden or the former inhabitants can contact the HCL.
Museum de Grutterswinkel
17km from Kaatsmuseum
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.
Prinsentuin
17.02km from Kaatsmuseum
The Prinsentuin is a garden built in renaissance style that is located in Groningen, behind the Prinsenhof This Garden consists of a rose garden, a herb garden, a part with berceaus and a sundial on the wall above the entrance.
Fries Museum
17.06km from Kaatsmuseum
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.
Dekema State
17.09km from Kaatsmuseum
Dekema State is a state and museum in Jelsum in the Dutch province of Friesland. The state is designed "as if the residents have gone away for a while" and that in the time of just before the Second World War . The museum shows everything that these imaginary inhabitants could have placed and placed in the rooms. For the interior, use has been made of paintings and furniture that have traditionally belonged to Dekema State and objects from elsewhere.
Nature Museum Fryslân
17.19km from Kaatsmuseum
The Natuurmuseum Fryslân is a nature museum in the city of Leeuwarden in the Dutch province of Friesland. The exhibit that has attracted the most visitors in the museum's history is the Animal Inside Out exhibit , produced by Gunther von Hagens . More than 62,000 visitors came to the museum to view the many plastinated animals. Four floors full of information, remarkable animals and plants, exercises, games and other surprises invite you to discover the beauty of nature in Fryslân.
Museum Blokhuispoort
17.43km from Kaatsmuseum
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.
Parkeren Kazemattenmuseum
18.38km from Kaatsmuseum
The Kazemattenmuseum is a war museum in Kornwerderzand in the Dutch province of Friesland. It consists of a visitor center, a number of casemates (command casemate, kitchen/anti-aircraft depot casemate, machine-gun casemate, cannon casemate and searchlight casemate) and a guardroom. Three monuments have been erected in commemoration: for the fallen in the Wonsstelling, for those on board the gunboat and for Captain Christiaan Boers and Deputy Commander Lieutenant Ham.
Frisian Maritime Museum
19.07km from Kaatsmuseum
The Frisian Maritime Museum in the city of Sneek shows the history of the Frisian shipping and trade from the 17th to the 20th century. It also gives a picture of the culture in this part of The Netherlands. it contains a library, film viewing room, and focuses on local seafaring life. It is housed in canal buildings dated to 1844 and offers collections of old sailing ships models, naval paintings, and silver pieces.
Waterpoort
19.24km from Kaatsmuseum
The Waterpoort in Sneek is a water gate, a gate in a defensive wall that connects a city to a waterway. In the 15th and 16th century, a defensive wall had been built around Sneek. The style of the gate, now the symbol of Sneek, can be described as Manierist. Above the gate itself, which originally would have had wooden fences, is a loggia and above that are what were the quarters of the gatekeeper. On each side is an octagonal tower. It is listed as a Rijksmonument, number 34075.
Fogelsanghstate
20.17km from Kaatsmuseum
The Fogelsangh State is a 17th-century state in the Frisian village of Veenklooster . The state forms the core of the 180 hectare estate of the same name. It was founded about 1650 by Dirck Fogelsangh near the former site of the Premonstratensian monastery Mons Oliveti (the Mount of Olives) that was closed in 1580. In the 18th and 19th centuries the state was repeatedly renovated, giving the Fogelsangh state its current neoclassical appearance.
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Kaatsmuseum
Voorstraat 76, 8801 LE Franeker, Netherlands
The Keatsmuseum is a museum dedicated to bouncing . It is based in the town of Franeker in the Dutch province of Friesland. The museum has been housed on the top floor of the Camminga House since 1995.