Leyden - Meermansburg-Pijpenkabinet

At Oude Vest 159 is the Meermansburg (1683), Leiden's largest group of almshouses (30 in number), built by Maarten Ruyckhaver Meerman, a member of the board of the East India Company. In the handsome Regents' Room, the office of the manager of the almshouses, are an interesting collection of old portraits and a clay pipe museum (Pijpenkabinet).