A person in the Fries Museum during the Exhibition Freedom, Feuds, Purgatory

Art & Culture in Leeuwarden

Do you want to immerse yourself in art and culture for a weekend? You can do that in Leeuwarden like nowhere else! The city's rich history goes hand in hand with modern art, theater, and music, which received a significant boost in 2018 when Leeuwarden was named European Capital of Culture. There is plenty to experience not only in the museums and theaters, but also on the streets where you will come across the most beautiful street art, and the monumental canal houses and city palaces are a feast for the eyes. 

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Exhibition
until February 07 REDBAD: the legendary king

Once, in the distant past, a legendary king reigned over the great Frisia. Redbad was his name,…

Fries Museum
Exhibition
until November 22 Mummy Mysteries

Mummy Mysteries is a fascinating exhibition about animal mummies. There are animal mummies on display from Ancient Egypt, but…

Festival
until November 22 Explore the North Festival

Explore the North is a three-day journey of discovery full of stories in many forms!

Podium Explore
Exhibition
Weekly The Underwater Safari

Are you coming under with me?

Nature Museum Fryslân
Youth Festival
until October 18 Youth Theatre Festival Het Avontuur

From October 15 to 18, Festival Het Avontuur will take place at De Harmonie for the fifth time. In…

Municipal Theater De Harmonie
Exhibition
until October 31 On an adventure with Ytske de Libelle in Van Eysinga Museum House!

Something special is fluttering around in the museum house… Come to Huis van Eysinga and follow dragonfly Ytske…

Eysinga Museum House
Theater and Drama
Friday October 23 Douwe Dijkstra and the pathetic spectacle – Infuusgabbers

A medical-comedy IV fluid drama about human connection in polarizing circumstances.

Podium Explore
Exhibition
until November 08 Stance

Drawings and prints from: Leipzig, Leeuwarden, Marrum & Berlin with work by: Hans Bote, Machteld van Buren, BC…

Art Space H47
Exhibition
until December 19st Soft Power Playground

Soft Power Playground: soft materials, tall tales at SPOONK

SPOONK Art Cantina
Theater and Drama
until November 28 Further to the North

In the Tryater production Fierder nei it Noarden, Gabe ends up in the garage where, more than twenty years ago…

Haaima Garage
Theater and Drama
Thursday 15 October Presentation OM and OM and OM

Come closer and step inside the cozy theater tent of OM en OM en OM. Karlijn is waiting there…

Municipal Theater De Harmonie
Theater and Drama
through April 30 The Crime Dinner

Are you ready? Immerse yourself and experience the world of The Crime Dinner.

The Great Wheels
Workshop
Weekly LAB058 – Internship LAB

The place for young people aged 13 to 18 to discover music for free,…

The Box
Youth theater
sunday 30 may Looking for visitors

Looking for a Visitor is a visual performance for everyone aged 4 and up. You travel along with Vosse,…

Municipal Theater De Harmonie
Theater and Drama
Friday January 22 CAMELEON

“Raise your hand if you are white!” shouts Sadettin’s daughter. She raises her hand, and he…

Municipal Theater De Harmonie
Youth theater
sunday february 07 Hans & Gretel on the run!

Hansel and Gretel on the Run! is an enchanting, musical family opera for ages 8 and up. Together with an ensemble…

Municipal Theater De Harmonie
Theater and Drama
Wednesday November 18 yours

A life full of expectations, judgments, and the gaze of others. Always wanting to be a ten, only to sometimes…

Municipal Theater De Harmonie
Musical or Show
June 24 and June 25 Disorder of my Life

After a successful tour, which was almost completely sold out, Stoornis of my Life returns for a short…

Municipal Theater De Harmonie
Cabaret
Thursday, November 12 Yentl and De Boer

Yentl and de Boer are back with Rekhalzen. In this musical cabaret show, they search for their ability to…

Municipal Theater De Harmonie
Theater and Drama
Sunday October 25 Afternoon Tea with Rudolf Nammensma

The TV program Chansons! has rekindled interest in this quintessentially French genre. And that was also due to…

Municipal Theater De Harmonie
Circus
Friday March 05 Panama Pictures

In Don't despair, Panama Pictures explores how power works in a world full of change, threat, and uncertainty. In…

Municipal Theater De Harmonie
Theater and Drama
thursday 11 march Frankenstein

On a gloomy winter evening, a laboratory is bursting at the seams. It is a mess of cables, wires, organ pipes…

Municipal Theater De Harmonie
Youth theater
Friday December 04 KADO

Big news! KADO is flying to the Netherlands earlier this year. You see, Sinterklaas has a very special surprise…

Municipal Theater De Harmonie
Theater and Drama
friday 27 november North Netherlands Orchestra

Music plays a major role in Japanese animated films. In this concert, you will hear well-known and surprising anime songs. From…

Municipal Theater De Harmonie

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Museum
Other Museum from Vintage Cars to Lace

The Other Museum from Vintage Cars to Lace. The museum houses a permanent collection of vintage cars. Big and small can…

Heritage
Blokhuispoort

The Blokhuispoort is a former prison in Leeuwarden that was built in 1593. Today it is a multifunctional…

Kerk
Cantata service Grote or Jacobijnerkerk Leeuwarden
Jacobijner Church Leeuwarden
Architecture
From Utrecht

A hidden gem in the heart of Leeuwarden's city center. Built in 1904 in Art Nouveau style, packed with sayings, lavishly decorated…

Heritage
Dekema State

The Dekema State is originally a noble residence, where various families lived until 1996. The State…

Kerk
Village Church Huizum

Cultuurpodium Dorpskerk Huizum regularly organizes concerts, lectures, and exhibitions in the Dorpskerk Huizum, Leeuwarden.

Theater stage
FRANK BLUEKA – Love from Ireland
Theater Hall DE BRES
Heritage
Frisian Agricultural Museum

For over 100 years, the Frisian Agricultural Museum has been telling the story of agriculture. In a beautiful monumental…

Frisian Agricultural Museum
Museum
Fries Museum

Discover the Frisian in yourself at the Fries Museum! Here you will discover everything about the eleven cities and…

Museum
Gallery Artbrut058

Galerie ArtBrut058 offers a platform for pure art, created by artists with disabilities, with their own visual language…

Museum
Gallery The Rose of Tudor

Galerie De Roos van Tudor is located in two monumental buildings in the city center of Leeuwarden and is…

Kerk
Great or Jacobin Church

The Grote or Jacobijnerkerk is the oldest and architecturally most important church in Leeuwarden.

Cultural organizations
The Princessehof

In the heart of the historic city center of Leeuwarden stands the 18th-century city palace of Maria Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Princess of…

Heritage
Historical Center Leeuwarden

The HCL is the center for Leeuwarden's historical heritage. Thousands of linear meters of historical documents, from the…

Museum
Mineralogical Museum

Hidden among the trees, surrounded by meadows, lies the Mineralogical… halfway along the road between Grou and Warten.

Museum
Museum De Grutterswinkel

In Museum de Grutterswinkel, life around a real old-fashioned grocery store is depicted, with everything that goes with it.

The Grocery Store
Museum
Museum Hert fan Friesland in Grou

Museum Hert fan Fryslân is located in the characteristic Frisian village of Grou, in the heart of Friesland. In museum…

Heritage
Eysinga Museum House

Huis van Eysinga is an impressive 18th-century city villa that was inhabited by the family of one of the…

Museum
Nature Museum Fryslân

An interactive museum for the whole family!

Heritage
Old Burger Orphanage
Heritage
Park Vijversburg

Park Vijversburg is one of the hidden gems of Fryslân and is located close to the city of Leeuwarden. Yet imagine…

Park Vijversburg
Museum
Pier Pander Museum

In the Prinsentuin, the beautiful city park on the edge of Leeuwarden's city center, are located the museum…

Theater stage
Podium Explore

Podium Explore offers a café, a large hall, a studio, and various smaller spaces where you can create…

Kerk
St. Boniface Church

The church is dedicated to Saint Boniface. The Saint Boniface Church in Leeuwarden was built in 1882/84 according to…

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