20 Attractions to Explore Near Museum Rotterdam '40 -'45 NOW

The Dutch Pinball Museum is a museum in the Historic Delfshaven district of the South Holland city of Rotterdam. In the museum at Voorhaven 12, approximately one hundred and twenty pinball machines are set up, spread over two floors, the majority of which can be played. Older pinball machines can be found on the ground floor, such as the first pinball machine with flippers from 1947, the Humpty Dumpty.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

Miniworld Rotterdam is the largest indoor miniature world in the Netherlands with a provisional surface of 600 m 2 in scale 1:87 . The attraction was previously called Railz Miniworld. An important part of this permanent exhibition of model railways is model railways and a variety of model construction , from detailed landscape construction to model construction .

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.

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.

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.