De Doelen

De Doelen is a hotel in Leiden, Bollenstreek, South Holland which is located on Rapenburg. De Doelen is situated nearby to the museum SieboldHuis, as well as near the library Bibliotheca Thysiana.

Type: Hotel
Also known as: “Hotel De Doelen”
Address: Rapenburg 2, Leiden

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Rijksmuseum van Oudheden and SieboldHuis.

Rijksmuseum van Oudheden

Museum

Photo: Goodness Shamrock, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden is the national archaeological museum of the Netherlands, located in Leiden. It grew out of the collection of Leiden University and still closely co-operates with its Faculty of Archaeology. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden is situated 180 metres south of De Doelen.

SieboldHuis

Museum

Photo: Niels, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Japan Museum SieboldHuis is a museum located at the Rapenburg in Leiden, Netherlands. It displays items that were collected by Philipp Franz von Siebold between 1823 and 1829 during his stay at Dejima, the Dutch trade colony nearby Nagasaki in Japan.

Bibliotheca Thysiana

Library

Photo: Pepicek, CC BY 2.5.

The Bibliotheca Thysiana was erected in 1655 to house the book collection of the lawyer Johannes Thysius. Upon his early death, he left a legacy of 20,000 guilders for the building of a public library with a custodian's dwelling.