Golden Age
Start your visit in the 17th century where the telescope caused an explosion of knowledge.
About the seventeenth century
In the 17th century, everything revolves around new ideas about heaven and earth and the overwhelming explosion of knowledge in the Netherlands.
The exhibition shows you masterpieces such as the oldest heliocentric planetarium in the world, maps by Blaeu, botanical drawings by Maria Sibylla Merian and of course the world-famous microscope by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek.
