Leiden University was founded in 1575 and is the oldest university in the Netherlands. The university has seven faculties (six in Leiden and one in The Hague), with 33.701 students enrolled in 2025. Everything related to...
During the summer of 2023, dinosaurs will once again be on display in exhibitions in Leiden, Leeuwarden, Rotterdam, and Vlaardingen. Come visit with your children or grandchildren and explore the fascinating period of the dinosaurs' habitat. Come face to face...
Naturalis has won the European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA). The natural history museum in Leiden is described by the jury as 'a very inventive museum with beautiful exhibitions'. The museum, officially called the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, received the award under...
Museum Naturalis in Leiden is celebrating its birthday. 200 years, congratulations! The museum started on August 9, 1820, but back then more as a place of research than as “a real” museum. Until 1950, the public could only visit on Sundays, and after that, not at all...
You can steal it! One hundred years after the end of the Eighty Years' War, in 1764, the Mosasaurus was discovered in Maastricht (OK, it's not exactly a dino!). This creature from the Cretaceous period known as the Maestrichtien,...
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