Excursions
As part of the conference, we are organizing three social excursions on Wednesday afternoon July 9. The excursions are described below. You can choose one of the excursions. Bus transportation to the excursion location and back to the TU Delft campus is included. It is also possible to bring one or two guests at an additional cost of 50 euro per person.
Kinderdijk
Immerse yourself in a world full of water, wind and determination. For over 700 years, the dikes, windmills and pumping stations of Kinderdijk have kept our feet dry. Board the tour boat, step inside the museum mills and discover the personal stories of the millers.
You will not find a windmill complex like Kinderdijk anywhere else in the world. The ingenious system of windmills and pumping stations has been keeping the soil dry here for centuries now, in a constant struggle between human brains and the power of the water. Visitors come from all across the world to experience this unique piece of history for themselves. Kinderdijk is a monument to the history of humankind and officially included as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
Mauritshuis
The Mauritshuis is located in the centre of The Hague, the historical and political heart of the Netherlands. A small world-class museum with a formidable collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings from the 17th century; the golden age of this type of art. The museum consists of two striking historical buildings: the Mauritshuis, a city palace on the Plein in The Hague and the Prince William V Gallery at the Buitenhof.
In the Mauritshuis, you will discover iconic seventeenth-century masterpieces, such as the Girl with a Pearl Earring and View on Delft by Johannes Vermeer and the Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt, which attract hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world to the museum every year.
Oranjehotel
The Oranjehotel was the name the Dutch attributed to the Scheveningen prison during the German occupation of the Netherlands in the Second World War. Here the German occupier detained over 25,000 people for interrogation and prosecution. Those who violated regulations imposed by the nazi's covered a broad spectrum and came from all corners of the Netherlands. Most were members of the Resistance, but those imprisoned here also included Jews and Jehovah’s Witnesses, as well as people detained for economic offences, such as dealing on the black market. Already early in the war, the complex was called Oranjehotel as a tribute to the Resistance members imprisoned there.
The excursion includes an introduction on the Oranjehotel by Jilt Sietsma. On your visit to the present Oranjehotel National Monument you can walk through the original prison corridors with cells on both sides. You will see Death Cell 601, kept in the exact original state it was in during the war, with its sober attributes and prisoners’ inscriptions on the walls. You will hear stories about fear, hope, faith and patriotism and will see the conditions in which prisoners were forced to live. The Oranjehotel shows how vulnerable freedom is, and which happens when injustice, oppression and arbitrariness prevail.
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