Museum Boerhaave
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Rijksmuseum Boerhaave is a museum of the history of science and medicine, based in Leiden, Netherlands. The museum hosts a collection of historical scientific instruments from all disciplines, but mainly from medicine, physics, and astronomy.
Established | 1931[1] |
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Location | Lange Sint Agnietenstraat 10 Leiden, Netherlands |
Type | Science Museum |
Collection size | 87,600 objects[2] |
Visitors | 55,000 (2011)[2] |
Director | Dirk VanDelft[3] |
President | Douwe Breimer[3] |
Curator | Hans Hooijmaijers[3] |
Public transit access | Leiden Centraal |
Website | museumboerhaave |
The museum is located in a building that was originally a convent in central Leiden. It includes a reconstructed traditional anatomical theatre. It also has many galleries that include the apparatus with which Heike Kamerlingh Onnes first liquefied helium (in Leiden), the electromagnet equipment used by Wander Johannes de Haas (a Leiden physicist) for his low-temperature research, and an example of the Leiden jar, among many other objects in the extensive collection.
The museum is named after Herman Boerhaave, a Dutch physician and botanist who was famous in Europe for his teaching at Leiden and lived to a great age, receiving brilliant students from all over Europe, including Peter the Great, Voltaire and Linnaeus.