Things to see in Rotterdam
Rotterdam is a city in Netherlands, with an urban population of about 1 million. Below are 20 notable places within about 5 km of the centre, ranked by how widely they are covered on Wikipedia.
1Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum
Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from its two most important donors, Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen.
2Euromast Viewpoint
Euromast is an observation tower in Rotterdam, Netherlands, designed by Hugh Maaskant constructed between 1958 and 1960. It was specially built for the 1960 Floriade, and is a listed monument since 2010.
3Diergaarde Blijdorp Park
Diergaarde Blijdorp, officially Rotterdam Zoo, is a zoo located in the northwestern part of Rotterdam. It is one of the oldest zoos in the Netherlands, and has been operated by the Stichting Koninklijke Rotterdamse Diergaarde ("Royal Rotterdam Zoo Foundation").
4Mevlana Mosque Place of worship
The Mevlana Mosque is a mosque in northwestern Rotterdam, Netherlands which serves mainly Turkish-Dutch Muslims. The mosque, named after Rumi, was built in 2001 and has two minarets.
5Kunsthal Art
The Kunsthal is an art space in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It opened in 1992.
6Wereldmuseum Rotterdam Museum
The Wereldmuseum Rotterdam (formerly known as the Museum voor Land- en Volkenkunde) is an ethnographic museum, situated at Willemskade in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
7Grote of Sint-Laurenskerk Place of worship
Grote Kerk or Sint-Laurenskerk is a Protestant church in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It is the only remnant of the medieval city of Rotterdam.
8Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam Museum
The Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam is a natural history museum located in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
9De Doelen Arts & culture
De Doelen is a concert venue and convention centre in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
10The Destroyed City History
The Destroyed City is a bronze memorial sculpture in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. It commemorates the German bombing of Rotterdam on 14 May 1940, which destroyed the medieval centre of the city.
11FENIX Museum of Migration Museum
The FENIX Museum of Migration is a museum dedicated to human migration, located within the former Fenix warehouse in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
12Van Brienenoordbrug Landmark
The Van Brienenoord Bridge is a large twin tied-arch motorway bridge in the Netherlands. Located at the east side of Rotterdam, it crosses the New Meuse (Nieuwe Maas), a major distributary of the river Rhine.
13Westerkerk Place of worship
The Westerkerk was a Protestant church on the Kruiskade in Rotterdam, Netherlands completed in 1870 and destroyed in the bombing of Rotterdam in May 1940.
14Chabot Museum Museum
The Chabot Museum is a museum dedicated to the Dutch painter and sculptor Hendrik (Henk) Chabot in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The museum is housed in a monumental villa in the Museumpark, near the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and the Netherlands Architecture Institute.
15Netherlands Architecture Institute Museum
The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) was a cultural institute for architecture and urban development, which comprised a museum, an archive plus library and a platform for lectures and debates.
16De Hef Landmark
De Hef, officially Koningshaven Bridge, is a vertical-lift bridge over the Koningshaven (Kings Harbor) channel at the port of Rotterdam, Netherlands.
17Arboretum Trompenburg Museum
Arboretum Trompenburg is a botanical garden in Rotterdam, Netherlands, which hosts a large collection of woody as well as herbaceous plants. It occupies an area of 7 ha and is situated 4 m below sea level, so a system of canals is used to drain the land.
18Maritime Museum Rotterdam Museum
The Maritime Museum Rotterdam is a maritime museum in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Dedicated to naval history, it was founded in 1874 by Prince Henry of the Netherlands.
19Netherlands Photo Museum Museum
The Netherlands Photo Museum (NFM) is a photography museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, that was founded in 2003.
20Crooswijk General Cemetery History
Crooswijk General Cemetery (Algemene Begraafplaats Crooswijk) is a cemetery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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