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Photo: Centraal Museum / fotograaf: Vincent Zedelius, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The oldest municipal museum in the Netherlands. It has a large art collection including the world’s largest collection of Rietveld designs and a permanent exhibition on Dick Bruna. There are usually several temporary exhibitions, an overview of which you can find at their site.
The Centraal Museum is the main museum in Utrecht, Netherlands, founded in 1838. The museum has a wide-ranging collection, mainly of works produced locally. The collection of the paintings by the Northern Mannerist Joachim Wtewael is by a long way the largest anywhere in the world. Other highlights are many significant paintings by the Utrecht Caravaggisti, such as Gerard van Honthorst and Hendrick ter Brugghen. Both of them travelled to Rome in the early 17th century to study the works of the Italian master Caravaggio. In the previous generation, as well as Wtewael, Abraham Bloemaert and the portraitist Paulus Moreelse were the most significant Utrecht painters, with Jan van Scorel still earlier.
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Botanical Garden
The museum of the Utrecht University.
Film and culture centre, housed in a former police station.
Visit a jamsession or concert in t'Oude Pothuys. Skilled musicians often come here to play for free. For a more intimate experience, you could visit Touchstone, located next to the characteristic Utrecht canals.
On a sunny day, renting a canoe to paddle along the canals through the city centre is a great and affordable way to see the city from a different perspective.
A large collection of historic Christian items.