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De Valk
Leiden's windmill, De Valk , has been carefully restored; its construction and operation highlight the wonders of preindustrial engineering. There are many presentations, including one that laments that local boy Rembrandt, as a miller's son, didn't paint many windmills. The upper levels afford an inspired view of the old town.
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Lakenhal
The 17th-century Lakenhal houses the Municipal Museum, with an assortment of works by old masters, as well as period rooms and temporary exhibits. The 1st floor has been restored to the way it would have looked when Leiden was at the peak of its cloth trade prosperity.
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Leiden American Pilgrim Museum
A fascinating restoration of a house occupied around 1610 by the soon-to-be Pilgrims. The house itself dates from 1375, but the furnishings are from the Pilgrims' period. Note the tiles on the floor, originals from the 14th century. Pick up a walking-tour brochure, which helps you explore the surviving parts of 17th-century Leiden.
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Museum Boerhaave
Leiden University was an early centre for Dutch medical research, and the Museum Boerhaave gathers together five centuries of pickled organs, surgical tools and skeletons in its Anatomy Theatre (it's morbid, but just try to look away). The museum is housed in the hospital where the chronically ill Herman Boerhaave taught medicine from his sick-bed until his death in 1738.
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Naturalis - Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum
A stuffed elephant greets you at Naturalis - Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum. This is a large and well-funded collection of all the usual dead critters, as well as the 1,000,000-year-old Java Man, discovered by Dutch anthropologist Eugène Dubois in 1891. This striking building is 300m west of the train station.
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Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
The museum ( Rijksmuseum van Oudhedenof ) has a classy collection of hieroglyphs - and 94 human and animal mummies. The entrance hall contains the actual Temple of Taffeh, a gift from Egypt in 1969 for Dutch help in saving ancient monuments when the Aswan High Dam was built.
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