South Holland - 87 Attractions You Must Visit

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About South Holland

South Holland is a province of the Netherlands with a population of over 3.7 million. Its capital city is The Hague, but its largest city is Rotterdam. Not only is the province a popular tourist destination, but it also happens to be one of the most densely populated and industrialized areas of the world.

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List of Attractions in South Holland

Louwman Museum

The Louwman Museum is a museum for automobiles in The Hague . It aims to give a picture of what the automobile industry has produced since 1887.The collection of more than 275 cars has been brought together since 1934 by two generations of the Louwman family.

Maastunnel

Maastunnel

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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.

Madurodam

Madurodam

Theme Parks

Madurodam is a Dutch miniature city in The Hague on a scale of 1 to 25, opened on July 2, 1952 at George Maduroplein. This tourist theme park attracts approximately 600,000 paying visitors every year. The park covers a total area of ​​62,630 m². The built city itself measures 17,630 m². The miniature city has often served as inspiration for the construction of various theme parks worldwide such as Legoland Billund and the Disneyland Park in Anaheim.

Maritime Museum

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.

Market Hall

Market Hall

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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.

Mauritshuis

Mauritshuis

Art Centres

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.

Meijendel

Meijendel

Outdoors- Other

Meijendel is a vast wetland dune and nature reserve west of southern Wassenaar and north of The Hague. It is also a water catchment area and is managed by water company Dunea . With Berkheide , Meijendel is part of the Natura 2000 area Meijendel-Berkheide and the future National Park Hollandse Duinen. In the south of Meijendel lies the Waalsdorpervlakte where between 250 and 280 Dutchmen were executed by the German occupiers during the Second World War.

Miniworld Rotterdam

Miniworld Rotterdam

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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 .

Molen De Valk

Molen De Valk

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Museums

Molen De Valk is a scaffolding mill and museum on the Lammermarkt in the Dutch city of Leiden. The current stone scaffolding mill is the third mill that has stood on this site. In 1611 the post mill "De Valck" was built on the Valkenburger stronghold. Since 2 June 1966, the mill has been in use as a municipal mill museum. De Valk has been milling again since 2000. As of 1 June 2013, the Molenmuseum De Valk is part of Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken .

Museon

Museon

Museums

The Museon is a popular science museum in The Hague with collections in the fields of geology, biology, history, archaeology, physics, technology and ethnology. The Museon is located between the Kunstmuseum and the Omniversum , in the west of the Zorgvliet district .Its collection consists of approximately 273,000 objects. Important items include the collection of objects belonging to the Inuit from Greenland and so more.

museum Beelden aan Zee

The Museum Beelden aan Zee in Scheveningen is the only Dutch museum devoted exclusively to sculpture. It was founded in 1994 by the collector couple Theo Scholten and Lida Miltenburg. The focus is on modern, contemporary international sculpture , especially post- World War II . Three to four times a year changing exhibitions can be seen in the Great Hall. They can be organized thematically, per movement or around the person of an artist.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Museums

Art Galleries

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.

Museum Bredius

Museum Bredius is a museum named after Abraham Bredius on the Lange Vijverberg in The Hague. It is remarkable for its collection of etchings and paintings, but is most attractive to visitors for its accurate restoration of the 18th-century Herenhuis interior with period furnishings.

Museum De Lakenhal

Museum De Lakenhal is the city museum of fine art and history in Leiden, Netherlands. One highlight is its collection of fijnschilder paintings from the Dutch Golden Age. The broad collection ranges from early works by Rembrandt van Rijn and Lucas van Leyden's Last Judgement to modern classics of De Stijl and artworks created by contemporary artists such as Claudy Jongstra, Atelier van Lieshout and many others.

Museum Gouda

Museum Gouda is a museum in the Dutch city of Gouda. It was founded in 1874 as the Municipal Museum of Gouda by, among others, city illustrator JJ Bertelman and pastor JN Scheltema. The museum was located in the Arti Legi building on the Markt. The museum exhibits objects from the six most important Gouda pottery factories: Plateelbakkerij Zuid-Holland , Goedewaagen , Ivora , Zenith , Regina and Flora . There are also examples of the Plateelbakkerij Schoonhoven on display.

Museum Prinsenhof Delft

Museum Prinsenhof Delft is a museum in the Dutch city of Delft . It is located in the former Sint-Agatha Monastery , which belongs to the Top 100 of the National Monuments Conservation Service from 1990. The museum sheds light on Delftware , great Delft scientists and Delft masters, Willem van Oranje and the House of Orange-Nassau . The museum has a collection of paintings, pottery and utensils from the Golden Age . The museum attracts approximately 63,500 visitors annually.

Museum Rotterdam '40 -'45 NOW

The Museum Rotterdam, is a museum about the history of Rotterdam. Since 2016, it is located in the Timmerhuis in the city center. The second location at the Coolhaven is called Museum Rotterdam '40-'45 NU. The museum has a collection ranging from household objects, such as ceramic tiles, furniture, kitchenware and tableware to textiles, clothing, hand fans, handbags, jewellery and coats of arms.

Museum Voorlinden

Museum Voorlinden is a Dutch private museum for modern and contemporary art on the Landgoed Voorlinden in Wassenaar in South Holland . The art collection of Joop van Caldenborgh it houses is known as the Caldic Collection , the largest private art collection in the Netherlands. The museum has an area of ​​more than 4,000 m² reserved for exhibitions. In addition to rooms for temporary exhibitions, changing collection presentations and the permanent collection.

Museumpark

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.

National Museum of Antiquities

This is the national archaeological museum of the Netherlands, located in Leiden. It grew out of the collection of Leiden University and still closely co-operates with its Faculty of Archaeology.

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