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Erasmusbrug

Erasmusbrug

0.48km from Wereldmuseum

This is the second bridge over the Nieuwe Maas in the center of the Dutch city of Rotterdam . He is named after the Dutch priest and humanist Erasmus . The bridge connects the Kop van Zuid district with the center on the north side of the river.The 284-metre-long cable- stayed bridge has a 139-metre high angled asymmetric steel pylon. This is why the bridge is nicknamed "The Swan". Between the Kop van Zuid and the pylon there is an 89 meter long bascule bridge for ships.

Nederlands Fotomuseum

Nederlands Fotomuseum

0.55km from Wereldmuseum

The Netherlands Photography Museum is a museum in Rotterdam , the Netherlands primarily focused on all aspects of photography . It is located from theApril 19, 2007in the former Holland America Line workshop building. The museum's collection is made up of many historical, social and cultural images from the 20th century to today, not only from the Netherlands but also from various parts of the world. The museum presents 150 archive pieces and a library comprising 120,000 digital images.

Kunsthal Rotterdam

Kunsthal Rotterdam

0.56km from Wereldmuseum

The Kunsthal Rotterdam , opened in 1992, is an exhibition space in Rotterdam . It is the first Kunsthal in the Netherlands. The building is located in the Museum Park and has an entrance on Westzeedijk opposite Koningin Emmaplein . Next to the Kunsthal is the Natural History Museum Rotterdam.

Natural History Museum Rotterdam

Natural History Museum Rotterdam

0.63km from Wereldmuseum

The Natural History Museum of Rotterdam is situated within Villa Dijkzigt, a national monument built in 1852.With a collection of more than 400,000 objects, varying from dried plants to fossilised mammoth remains, the museum is one of the largest natural history museums in the Netherlands.The museum offers a variety of different exhibitions, activities, educational programmes, conducted tours, quests and options for children’s parties.

Het Park

Het Park

0.71km from Wereldmuseum

The Park is the oldest park in Rotterdam after the Oude Plantage , located west of the Center . The Park is located between the Nieuwe Maas , the Parkhaven , the Westzeedijk and the Scheepvaartkwartier . Many events have been held in the Park over the years. The Park looks like one whole, but it actually consists of two parts. This is because it was built on the spot where two country estates used to be.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

0.85km from Wereldmuseum

This is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. It houses the collections of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans (1767–1847) and Daniël George van Beuningen (1877–1955). The museum has become the house of over 151,000 artworks over 170 years.[3] In the collection, ranging from medieval to contemporary art, are works of Rembrandt, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Salvador Dalí and other famous collections.

Kunstinstituut Melly

Kunstinstituut Melly

0.87km from Wereldmuseum

Kunstinstituut Melly is a contemporary art gallery located in a former school building on Witte de Withstraat, in Rotterdam. It presents curated exhibitions, symposiums, live events, educational programs, and has a separate art literature publishing arm.

Witte de Withstraat

Witte de Withstraat

0.9km from Wereldmuseum

The Witte de Withstraat is a nightlife street in Rotterdam with cafes , restaurants , art galleries , various shops and municipal monuments. The street connects the Schiedamse Vest with the Eendrachtsweg.

Museumpark

Museumpark

0.91km from Wereldmuseum

A beautiful urban park located in in Rotterdam, Netherlands. There are so many things to see and do here. On the south side of the pond in the park a monument for Gerrit Jongh, director of municipal works in Rotterdam. There are several artworks in the park, so it also serves as a sculpture garden.

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen

0.92km from Wereldmuseum

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen is an art depot of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. It is the first publicly accessible art depot in the world.It is a 39.5 meter high, bowl-shaped building that is covered with reflective plates, so that a more or less contiguous, reduced mirror image of the environment can be seen, whereby one can look over the surrounding buildings.

Chabot Museum

Chabot Museum

0.94km from Wereldmuseum

The Chabot Museum is a museum dedicated to the Dutch painter and sculptor Hendrik Chabot , located in a monumental villa in the Museum Park in Rotterdam .The collection of the museum includes the collection of Apronemeijer of works from the 1920s and a collection of 26 works from the Second World War , from the private collection of Mrs Tol-Breugem.The museum is housed in a monumental villa in the Museumpark, near the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and the Netherlands Architecture Institute.

Euromast

Euromast

0.98km from Wereldmuseum

The Euromast is a Tower in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. With 185 meters it is the tallest Tower of Netherlands which is open to the public.The tower is a concrete structure with an internal diameter of 9 m and a wall thickness of 30 cm.

Het Nieuwe Instituut

Het Nieuwe Instituut

0.99km from Wereldmuseum

Het Nieuwe Instituut in the South Holland city of Rotterdam is a museum for architecture , design and digital culture , and a platform for the creative industry. Exhibitions and debates are organized on the various design disciplines such as graphic design, product design, games, fashion, architecture, urban design and landscape architecture.

Sonneveld House

Sonneveld House

1.02km from Wereldmuseum

Sonneveld House in the South Holland city of Rotterdam was built in 1932 and 1933 by architect Leendert van der Vlugt of Bureau Brinkman & van der Vlugt. Huis Sonneveld is a national monument , together with the nearby Huis Boevé , designed by the same architect in the same style. The design of the interior, the execution of the carpentry, the choice of upholstery and furniture, as well as the design of the outdoor space are tuned in detail to the functional layout of the building.

Maritime Museum

Maritime Museum

1.08km from Wereldmuseum

The Maritime Museum Rotterdam is a maritime museum in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Dedicated to naval history, it was founded in 1874 by Prince Henry of the Netherlands.The Museum Collection contains 850.000 objects from six centuries of maritime history.

Mauritshuis

Mauritshuis

1.09km from Wereldmuseum

A beautiful art museum, which home to the best of Dutch painting from the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer.The museum houses the Royal Cabinet of Paintings which consists of 854 objects, mostly Dutch Golden Age paintings. The collection contains works by Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen, Paulus Potter and so more.

World Trade Center Rotterdam

World Trade Center Rotterdam

1.44km from Wereldmuseum

The World Trade Center Rotterdam is located on Coolsingel , Beursplein , Rode Zand and Meent in the center of Rotterdam . It is a business center in Rotterdam with approximately 200 offices and various facilities such as a conference center. The main building is 93 meters high. World Trade Center Rotterdam has the status of a national monument.

Market Hall

Market Hall

1.45km from Wereldmuseum

The Markthal is a residential and office building with a market hall underneath, located in Rotterdam.[8] The building was opened on October 1, 2014, by Queen Máxima of the Netherlands. Besides the large market hall, the complex houses 228 apartments, 4,600 m2 retail space, 1,600 m2 horeca and an underground 4-storey parking garage with a capacity of over 1200 cars.

Maastunnel

Maastunnel

1.49km from Wereldmuseum

The Maastunnel is the oldest submerged tunnel in the Netherlands. It connects the banks of the Nieuwe Maas in Rotterdam . The tunnel consists of four tubes: two for cars, one for cyclists and one for pedestrians. Construction started in 1937 and was completed in 1942. Every day, more than 75,000 motor vehicles and around 7,000 cyclists and moped riders, as well as 150 pedestrians , use this tunnel. [2] This makes the Maastunnel an important link in the Rotterdam road network.

Cube Houses

Cube Houses

1.53km from Wereldmuseum

Cube houses are a set of innovative houses built in Helmond and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The central idea of the cube houses around the world is mainly optimizing the space, as a house, to a better distribution of the rooms inside. It is designed by architect Piet Blom and based on the concept of "living as an urban roof": high density housing with sufficient space on the ground level.

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Wereldmuseum

Wereldmuseum

Willemskade 25, 3016 DM Rotterdam, Netherlands

The Wereldmuseum in the South Holland city of Rotterdam is a museum about cultures in the present and the past. It is the continuation of the Museum of Land and Ethnology and is located on the corner of Veerhaven and Willemskade . It shows ethnographic objects of different cultures in Asia, Oceania , Africa , America .