Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #5 in The Hague, Netherlands

Museon is a museum for science and culture in The Hague, Netherlands, with a strong focus on education. It regularly presents exhibitions on a range of topics related to the environment, geography or cultural identity. It has an extensive collections in the domains of geology, biology, archaeology, history, science and ethnology. The name Museon is a shortening of the museum's original extended Dutch name - Museum ten bate van het Onderwijs. Since 2022, the museum has been merged with the nearby cinema Omniversum, and goes by the name Museon-Omniversum: One Planet

Wikipedia: Museon (EN), Website

KM21 is a museum for contemporary visual art in The Hague in the Netherlands. The museum was established in 2002 as part of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag. In KM21 work by artists from The Hague, the Netherlands and international contemporaries is exhibited.

Wikipedia: KM21 (EN), Website

The Fotomuseum Den Haag is a photography museum in The Hague. The museum was founded in 2002. It was a spin-off of the nearby Kunstmuseum Den Haag, when then director Wim van Krimpen decided that the Kunstmuseum's collection of photography had become so rich that it deserved a separate location. It shares an entrance and space with the museum of contemporary art KM21.

Wikipedia: Fotomuseum Den Haag (EN), Website

Long Walk to Freedom is a statue in The Hague. It was unveiled on September 25, 2012, by Nobel Peace Prize winner and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.

Wikipedia: Walk to Freedom (NL)

The Catshuis, initially known as Huis Sorgvliet, is the official residence of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands. Built between 1651 and 1652 for Jacob Cats as private villa, it was renamed after him after his death.

Wikipedia: Catshuis (EN), Website

Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices which are associated with members of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Adherents are commonly known as Christian Scientists or students of Christian Science, and the church is sometimes informally known as the Christian Science church. It was founded in 1879 in New England by Mary Baker Eddy, who wrote the 1875 book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which outlined the theology of Christian Science. The book was originally called Science and Health; the subtitle with a Key to the Scriptures was added in 1883 and later amended to with Key to the Scriptures.

Wikipedia: Christian Science (EN), Website

The Richard Hol memorial was erected in 1906 in The Hague.

Wikipedia: Gedenkmonument Richard Hol (NL)

The Van Karnebeek spring is a sandstone monument that commemorates the Carnegie Foundation and the opening of the Peace Palace in The Hague on 28 August 1913. It is a bench with fountain, is located on the corner of Scheveningseweg and Carnegielaan and consists of three parts. The curved middle part is higher than the two side parts and has a lion's head in the middle from which spring water comes out. A frieze with text runs along the entire length. Willem C. Brouwer (1877-1933), founder of the factory Brouwer's Aardewerk NV (1915-1956), made the monument.

Wikipedia: Van Karnebeekbron (NL), Website

The memorial monument Constantijn Huygens was erected in Scheveningen in 1897.

Wikipedia: Gedenkmonument Constantijn Huygens (NL)

The Church of St. John and St. Philip, in short the English Church, is an Anglican church building on the Ary van der Spuyweg in The Hague. The priest's house is next door at the beginning of the Riouwstraat.

Wikipedia: Anglican Church of St. John and St. Philip (NL), Mapillary, Website

The Scheveningse Bosjes is an original dune area and now a park in the Scheveningen district. The park is bordered by the Scheveningseweg on the southwest side, the Kerkhoflaan on the southeast side and Madurodam on the north side. The Prof. B.M. Teldersweg cuts the forest in half from Madurodam to the Scheveningseweg. On the sea side there is a large pond, the Water Feature.

Wikipedia: Scheveningse Bosjes (NL)

The first mentions of the Baháʼí Faith in the Netherlands were in Dutch newspapers which in 1852 covered some of the events relating to the Bábí movement which the Baháʼí Faith regards as a precursor religion. Circa 1904 Algemeen Handelsblad, an Amsterdam newspaper, sent a correspondent to investigate the Baháʼís in Persia. The first Baháʼís to settle in the Netherlands were a couple of families — the Tijssens and Greevens, both of whom left Germany for the Netherlands in 1937 as business practices were affected by Nazi policies. Following World War II the Baháʼís established a committee to oversee introducing the religion across Europe and so the permanent growth of the community in the Netherlands begins with Baháʼí pioneers arriving in 1946. Following their arrival and conversions of some citizens the first Baháʼí Local Spiritual Assembly of Amsterdam was elected in 1948, with around 11 Baháʼís in the country. By 1962, at the election of its first national spiritual assembly, there were 110 Baháʼís and nine local spiritual assemblies, by 1973 there were 365 Baháʼís and 16 spiritual assemblies, and by 1979 there were 525 Baháʼís and 27 spiritual assemblies. An estimate from 1997 put Baháʼís in The Netherlands at 1500. In 2005 the Netherlands had 34 local spiritual assemblies.

Wikipedia: Baháʼí Faith in the Netherlands (EN), Website

Duinweide was a country estate in The Hague, located on the site of the current Archipel neighbourhood. It was one of the country estates in the dune area between the Haagse singelgracht and Scheveningen, where the estates of Houtrust and Sorghvliet were also located.

Wikipedia: Duinweide (NL)

The Peace Chapel is a former church building of the Reformed Congregation in the Malakkastraat (Archipelbuurt) in The Hague. Since 2018, it has been converted into four residential units.

Wikipedia: Vredeskapel (Den Haag) (NL)

The Women's Reading Museum is a private library in The Hague, founded in 1894. It is the only surviving Dutch 'reading museum' for women and has a collection of more than 35,000 books. Since 1974, membership has also been open to men.

Wikipedia: Damesleesmuseum (NL), Website

The Irene Monument is the liberation monument of The Hague.

Wikipedia: Irenemonument (NL)

Nassauplein is a long rectangular square in the Archipel neighbourhood in The Hague with only 43 house numbers. There used to be a moat, but it was covered over in 1883. At the beginning of the 20th century, the water was filled in. A small part is still covered and water from the Haagse Beek flows from the last part of Nassauplein under the Javatraat junction and with a waterfall the stream flows into the Willemspark and from there into the Singelgracht.

Wikipedia: Nassauplein (Den Haag) (NL)