Royal Eise Eisinga Planetarium

Eise Eisinga Planetarium added to UNESCO World Heritage List

Written in: Dutch • redactie • September 24 2023

American tourists struck gold on Tuesday, September 19, 2023. During their visit to the Planetarium in Franeker, they were treated to a cup of coffee and cake, after it had become known that Eise Eisinga's astronomical structure as...

Enthusiasm of Eise Eisinga and Bate Hylkema

Written in: Dutch • redactie • September 27 2020

As you undoubtedly know, a stamp (NVPH 1612) was issued in 1994 featuring an image of the interior of the planetarium (the oldest and only still functioning one in the world), which wool comber Eise Eisinga (1744 – 1828, 250th anniversary of his birth)...

Peter over Delta Works: The Netherlands and water with climate adaptation: Thank you very much for the nice explanation of the design.

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Annet Hogendoorn over The piss-pots of Tilburg: Another super fun blog post, and educational :)

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Lars over Delft Blue Ceramic stamp a 'deception stamp': Now just get those blueprints out of the catalog..

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Erik Boeré over Delft Blue Ceramic stamp a 'deception stamp': The best solution is probably to ignore the ceramics stamp altogether. Fortunately, as the NVPH/Catalog Committee, we already have…

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Yvonne Kruse over The piss-pots of Tilburg: What a nice article, Willem!

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Willem over Stamp Day 2026: “I would like to know . . .?”: The Delta stamps can already be found on Marktplaats. A beautiful design! In my opinion, that is an example of how collectors want it.

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