Teylers Museum

Visit the Teylers Museum with your City Card

It is not necessary to reserve a time slot to visit this location with your City Card. Make sure your City Card is valid at the time of your visit.

Teylers Museum: the oldest museum in the Netherlands

Teylers opened its doors in 1784 and is now known as the oldest museum in the Netherlands. Fossils, instruments, books, coins and drawings: the collection is unique in the world. From the start it fostered interest in both the arts and sciences – charting our knowledge of planet earth and life itself. The objects were not placed here just to be admired, but mainly to encourage new discoveries. Teylers was - and is - a place of endless wonder.

Don’t forget to look at the rooms themselves and the way they are furnished. The building itself is a museum piece – a time machine.

Pieter Teyler

The museum owes its existence to Pieter Teyler (1702-1778), a wealthy native of Haarlem. Teyler believed that spreading knowledge about art and science would lead to a better society. He bequeathed a fortune that made it possible to build the museum, one stage at a time, and to purchase its various collections. At the end of 2021 the home of Teyler opened to the public, after years of painstaking and extensive restoration. Have a look at this unique historic building.

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