Northern Maritime Museum - 4 Things to Know Before Visiting

The Korenbeurs is one of those buildings in Groningen with a very impressive façade. This is where grain was traded during the heyday of the Groningen grain cultivation. Traders met here to score high prices for their product. The building is a rijksmonument since 1971 and is one of the Top 100 Dutch heritage sites that was selected in 1990.

The University Museum has been a science museum since 1934 in the academic heart of the student city of Groningen. The collection consists of objects related to nature, culture and science. The exhibitions of the museum include a collection of flowers and seeds, an anatomical and pathological collection, a psychological collection, an anthropological collection and objects related to Aletta Jacobs' s, the first Dutch female doctor.

The monumental drawbridge is located between the Schuttevaerstraat and the Kastanjelaan over the Hoogeveensche Vaart. The bridge is referred to as Sluisbrug because of its location and relationship with the lock, which is also worth protecting.

The synagogue is a Jewish building completed in 1906 at Folkingestraat 60 in the Dutch city ​​of Groningen . On the Nieuwstad side , the building adjoins the older Rabbinaatshuis from 1890. Behind the building are remnants of the former Zwaantjesgang.The building is characterized by its neo-Moorish style , with many oriental horseshoe and keyhole arches in the windows and galleries. It is the last and most exuberant example of this style in the Netherlands.

Groningen City Hall is the seat of government in Groningen, the Netherlands. The city council meets in a modern room downstairs, but upstairs in the former raadszaal the Gulden Boek is kept that lists the honored citizens of the town.The building was designed by the architect Jacob Otten Husly who won the commission in 1775 as the result of a prize competition that was set out by his personal friend, the council member and ex-amsterdam professor Petrus Camper.

The objective of the Oude Groninger Kerken Foundation is: To maintain historic church buildings in the province of Groningen and to promote interest in them. In Groningen there is nothing that means as much to people as the wierden landscape with its ancient churches. These beacons in the landscape are famous far beyond the provincial borders. And are even counted among the highlights of what is still tangible of the old North Sea civilizations.