Month: March 2025

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Hide and Seek at the Old Observatory – 19th of March

Are you always lost in the Old Observatory? Or are you always the one who finds the way? Either way, you can make use of your skills in the Old Observatory Hide and Seek! Make your inner child come alive on the 19th of March, at 19:00 in the Old Observatory. Sign up here now!

Family Observatory Night – 12th of April

Drum rolls please 🥁🥁🥁 Mark your calendars for the Observity Committee’s next big event: the Family Observatory Night! 🔭✨ Have you always wanted to show your family and friends around in the Old Observatory or brag about the famous physicist and astronomers that used the telescopes there? Well, on the 12th of April you can😎.…
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The Dish Movie Night – 10th of March

As Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, our only link was a satellite dish in rural Australia with a few bugs (and a few hundred sheep).🐑 We watched ‘The Dish’ (2000) at the Old Observatory in Leiden on March 10th at 19:30🌑🌒🌓🌔. Although the movie featured less sheep than we had thought, we can highly recommend…
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Hortus Botanicus Tour – 3rd of March

On the 3rd of March, the scientific director of the Hortus Botanicus Leiden personally gave Kaiser members a tour through the oldest botanical garden of the Netherlands. We would like to thank Paul Kessler once again for all the details you gave about the plants and Hortus itself. It was a very fun tour!