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Leiden Attractions
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The city of Leiden is situated in the province of the South Holland, Netherlands. It forms an urban area with the Valkenburg, Oegstgeest (province), Katwjik (town), Voorschoten (town), Rijnsburg (community) and Leiderdrop (town as well as a municipality). Leiden apart from being a city is also considered to be a municipality and this beautiful city is adored with numerous attractions.
Leiden could also be said to be a city of museums as it includes five national museums and give below is details about the museums, which are:
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- Naturalis (National Museum for Natural History) – This museum displays a wide range of birds as well as mammals and also includes an extensive collection of spiders, butterflies, beetles, fish, various other kinds of insects, sea animals, plants as well as minerals. This museum also makes arrangements for educational activities and features a information centre and a documentation centre as well.
- The Laklenhal: Municipal Museum– In the early years the Lakenhal was the centre of the textile industry and at present it includes the Municipal Museum that displays works of renowned painters of Leiden, such as Jan Steen, Rembrandt and Lucas van Leyden.
- The Boerhaave Museum – This museum is named after a reputed professor, Professor Herman Boerhaave, who taught chemistry, botany and medicine at the Leiden University. This museum is dedicated to the medicine and natural sciences and is nestled at the Cecilia Hospital, which was regarded to be the first academic hospital of this city.
- National Museum Antiquities – It displays collections of Egypt, Near East as well as of Netherlands and also exhibits classical antiquities.
Apart from the museums this city also includes the Hortus Botanica (Leiden University Botanical Gardens), the oldest botanical garden of Netherlands and at this reputed botanical garden plants from all parts of the world have been cultivated by a team of experts and this city is also adorned with churches and stately buildings as well.
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