Opening hours and prices

The museum is open from 10 AM to 5 PM from Tuesday to Sunday. The museum is also open on Mondays during school vacations and on various holidays. This means that we are open on the following Mondays: 

• Spring holidays: 17 and 24 February 2025
• Easter: 21 April 2025
• May holiday: 28 April 2025
• Liberation day: 5 May
• Pentecost: 9 June 2025
• Summer holidays: 7, 14, 21, 28 July and 4, 11, 18 and 25 August 2025
• Autumn holidays: 13 and 20 October 2025
• Christmas holidays: 22 and 29 December 2025

The museum is closed on:

• 1 January (New Year's Day)
• 27 April (King's Day), please note that in 2025, King's Day falls on 26 April. So 26 April 2025 we will be closed
• 3 October (Leidens ontzet)
• 25 December (Christmas Day)

Students Leiden University: Choose with an online reservation for "I already have an entrance ticket/card/voucher". Free entrance applies on presentation of the Leiden University student card.

Opening hours: Tuesday until Friday from 13.00 until 17.00. 

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