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The Royal Eise-Eisinga Planetarium, Franeker

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

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.

(Image credit : Netherlands World Heritage Foundation Eise Eisinga Planetarium)

The Dutch World Heritage Sites

The Kingdom of the Netherlands includes another UNESCO site, the historic centre of Willemstad on Curaçao, an autonomous country within the Kingdom.

  • Lower Germanic Limes
  • Dutch Water Conservation Line
  • Colonies of Mercy in Drenthe and Friesland
  • Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam
  • 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.

    • Useful links

    www.eisinga-planetarium.nl/en/

    www.holland.com

    www.whc.unesco.org/en/list/

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