National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine

(Local Name: Leyden - Boerhaave Museum) At Agnietenstraat 10 the Boerhaave Museum on the history of science and medicine was reopened in new premises in 1991; the original museum at Steenstraat 1A had been closed for some years. The collection includes many pieces of apparatus (including microscopes) developed in the University for the purposes of scientific research and used by physicists such as Kamerlingh Onnes, Zeeman, Snellius and van 's-Gravenzande. There are also many exhibits associated with such great names of the past as Christiaan Huygens, Leeuwenhoek and Boerhaave.