Monday 27 November 2023

The Royal Eise-Eisinga Planetarium in Franeker has become a UNESCO World Heritage Site

The Royal Eise-Eisinga Planetarium
The Planetarium, the 12th UNESCO site in The Netherlands, is the oldest functioning planetarium in the world. 

Between 1774 and 1781, the Dutch amateur astronomer Eise Eisinga built a movable model of the solar system. 

To make it fit in his living room, Eisinga, who earned his living in the textile trade as a wool comber, used a scale of 1:1,000,000,000: one millimetre to one million kilometres. 

The model is still in its original state and is open to the public all year round. 

The Dutch World Heritage Sites

  • Lower Germanic Limes
  • Dutch Water Conservation Line 
  • Colonies of Mercy in Drenthe and Friesland 
  • Wadden Sea 
  • Rietveld-Schröder House in Utrecht 
  • Beemster polder 
  • Woudagemaal steam pumping station near Lemmer in Friesland 
  • Schokland nature reserve 
  • Noordoostpolder in Flevoland province 
  • the canals of Amsterdam and, the windmills of Kinderdijk-Elshout. 

The Kingdom of the Netherlands includes another UNESCO site, the historic centre of Willemstad on Curaçao, an autonomous country within the Kingdom.
* Simone Sagi at ssagi@holland.com

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