Boerhaave Museum

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Boerhaave Museum (2009)

The Rijksmuseum Boerhaave , before 2017 only Museum Boerhaave , is a museum for the history of natural sciences and medicine in Leiden ( Netherlands ). It preserves a collection of historical scientific apparatus and devices primarily from medicine, physics and astronomy as well as documents on the individual sciences.

history

The museum was created over several decades of the 20th century , initially as a result of the private initiative of Leiden citizens and scientists from the University of Leiden . The private museum, opened in 1931, was converted into a national museum in 1947 . The museum holdings grew, so that in 1991 a move to the former nunnery “St. Caecilia ”took place. In 1947 the museum was named Museum Boerhaave after Herman Boerhaave , an important Dutch doctor and botanist of the 18th century. The museum is now a listed building ( Rijksmonument ). After the museum's permanent exhibition was extensively redesigned, the museum received the European Museum of the Year award in 2019 .

Collections

The museum's 25 exhibition rooms show the exhibits in a loose chronological order, starting with the 16th century. The collection includes For example , instruments designed by the Dutch surgeon and ship's doctor Cornelis Solingen , which were made exclusively functional and without decorations. Since 2008, the museum has shown 72 models of the human body made by the French anatomist and model maker Louis Auzoux in the 19th century. A special room represents a reconstructed anatomical theater from 1596, which is also used today (2014) for demonstration purposes. Other rooms show u. a. the apparatus that was used to liquefy helium for the first time in Leiden and a copy of the Leiden bottle . The Dutch Nobel Prize winners are also honored, such as Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff , the first Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, and the four winners in physics Hendrik Lorentz (1902), Pieter Zeeman (1902), Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1910) and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1913).

  • Anatomical Theater (1610)

  • Anatomical theater (2010)

  • Boerhaave Museum (Steenstraat (Leiden), 1931–1991)

  • Boerhaave Museum in 2010

Web links

Commons : Museum Boerhaave  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monument number: 25010 Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, accessed on June 3, 2018 (Dutch)
  2. ^ European Museum of the Year Award. In: European Museum Forum. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 40.9 ″  N , 4 ° 29 ′ 21.1 ″  E