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Markets itself as a "maker space and house for talent development". The Batavierhuis is a society of sorts focussed primarily on music, but also other art forms, and hosts concerts and other events (albeit often Dutch-spoken), both from its members, known as "Batavieren", as well as external artists, in its own building. Tickets can be bought from their website.
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Event venue in the east of Delfshaven, mostly hosting music performances, also hosting the Rotterdam Flamenco Festival.
Museum Rotterdam '40 -'45 NOW
The small 'War and Resistance Museum' paints life in Rotterdam and the Netherlands during the Second World War. Attention is also given to the military developments of the time and the destruction of the city of Rotterdam. Lectures and evenings with documentaries are often on the programme.
This 1870 sandstone statue is, and always has been controversial. It commemorates Piet Heyn, a commandant of the Dutch West India Company, eventually working his way up to lieutenant-admiral of Holland and West-Frisia, housed in Hoorn. In 1628, during the Dutch war against Spanish overlordship, Heyn managed to capture the Spanish silver fleet, taking a massive sum of money from the Spanish treasury into that of the Dutch Republic. The statue and Heyn as a person are controversial since this money has subsequently partially been invested in the slave trade. Though Heyn himself would not have had a decisive say in this matter, the statue has been covered with slurs against the Dutch colonial past in recent times.
Oude- of Pelgrimvaarderskerk
Founded in 1417 as a chapel. The 'Old Church' has been a Protestant church since 1574, and thanks its main name to the Pilgrim Fathers, English settlers banished to Leiden. Many of them stayed there, but some chose to embark for the new world on the Mayflower, establishing the Plymouth Colony. Before embarking for the new world, they had their last sermon in this church.
Dutch Pinball Museum
This monumental building was built in 1825 and had since undergone a major restoration. It is a former grain warehouse that was repurposed in 1861 as a distillery. It housed a dependency of the Rotterdam Museum from 1975 to 2012. It nowadays houses the Dutch Pinball Museum.
The cathedral of Rotterdam (Roman Catholic) is a somewhat heavy neo romanesque creation from 1907. The interior is quite well proportioned and atmospheric. Sunday mass is at 11:00 (sometimes with a good choir). Besides assisting at the normally well attended mass you can walk in before or after to have a look inside.