Winter in Leeuwarden brrrrr!

2018

An inviting light shines through the windows of the many cafés and restaurants and the warmth lures you inside. A cup of steaming chocolate milk with a thick dollop of whipped cream or a heart-warming meal sounds like music to your ears. In Leeuwarden, warmth can be found in many places. This winter create heavenly moments of enjoyment. From active to laid-back. Where are you going to warm up?

Winter hotspots - cosy

Museums - warm up

  • SPOONK Art Cantina

    SPOONK Art Cantina
    Museum

  • Fries Landbouwmuseum (Frisian Agricultural Museum)

    Fries Landbouwmuseum (Frisian Agricultural Museum)

    Friesland has been an agricultural province for centuries. Since time immemorial, farmers have kept livestock and worked the land. In the Frisian A...

    Heritage

  • Pier Pander Museum

    Pier Pander Museum

    Temporarily closed

    The Prinsentuin, the beautiful city park on the edge of downtown Leeuwarden, houses the museum and temple dedicated to the Frisian sculptor Pier Pa...

    Museum

  • Historic Centre Leeuwarden

    Historic Centre Leeuwarden

    The HCL is the centre for Leeuwarden's historical heritage. Thousands of linear meters of historical documents, from the Middle Ages to the present...

    Cultural organizations

  • Blokhuispoort

    Blokhuispoort

    The Blokhuispoort is a cultural business-centre in the lively centre of Leeuwarden. Housed in a former prison, it is now full of creative initiativ...

    Heritage

  • Galerie De Roos van Tudor

    Galerie De Roos van Tudor

    Gallery De Roos van Tudor is located in two monumental buildings in the centre of Leeuwarden and focuses on contemporary art by both emerging and e...

    Museum

  • Natuurmuseum Fryslân (Frisian Museum of Natural History)

    Natuurmuseum Fryslân (Frisian Museum of Natural History)

    An interactive museum for the whole family to enjoy!

    Museum

  • Museumhuis van Eysinga

    Museumhuis van Eysinga

    Huis van Eysinga is an impressive 18th-century city villa that was inhabited by the family of one of the most significant men of its time: Frans Ju...

    Heritage

  • Tresoar

    Tresoar

    Tresoar: the treasury of Frisian history.

    Library

  • De Utrecht

    De Utrecht

    A hidden gem in the middle of downtown Leeuwarden. Built in 1904 in art nouveau style, crammed with sayings, lavishly decorated and full of symboli...

    Architecture

  • Het Huis Dat Met Je Hersenen Speelt (Hersenhuis)

    Het Huis Dat Met Je Hersenen Speelt (Hersenhuis)

    At Het Huis Dat Met Je Hersenen Speelt (The House That Rewires Your Brain), you get a guided tour where you can not only look but (more importantly...

    Attraction

  • Fries Museum

    Fries Museum

    Discover the Frisian in yourself at the Fries Museum! Here you will discover all about the eleven cities and the countryside, the love-hate relatio...

    Museum

  • The Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics

    The Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics

    In the middle of Leeuwarden's historic city centre stands the 18th-century city palace of Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, princess of Orange Nassau...

    Cultural organizations

  • 'The Other Museum', from classic cars to lace

    'The Other Museum', from classic cars to lace

    'The Other Museum', from classic cars to lace. Our museum has an incredible collection of classic cars, as well as an beautiful (and huge) model ra...

    Museum

LUNA Nights

From 30 January to 1 February 2025, LUNA Nights will again take place in the railway dock area and the centre of Leeuwarden. Throughout the weekend, you will find enchanting light art in unexpected places in the public space. Put on your warmest coat and hat and be amazed!

See the programme
LUNA 2021

A breath of fresh air

In need of a breath of fresh air? Just a few kilometres from the city centre, the sounds of the city fade away, giving way to the sounds of singing birds and croaking frogs. Leeuwarden has some beautiful nature areas, green oases where you can escape to. And they are all just a stone's throw away.

Into nature
Froskepolle winter

To see and do now - Agenda

#snowarden - 'giet it oan?'

The city shrouded in icy cold weather and covered in a thick layer of fresh snow. Whether we can get our old, trusted skates and sharpen them again this year remains to be seen. Would you like to put your skates on anyway? Then, of course, you can always go to the Elfstedenhal. And until we can really say ‘it giet oan’ (It’s going to happen-referring to the Eleven Cities Skating Tour), you can enjoy these beautiful winter pictures of it. 

  • Prinsentuin schaatsen, Pier Pander tempel, winter
  • Winter in de stad
  • Winter in Leeuwarden
  • Froskepolle winter
  • Elfstedenboog schaatsen
  • Potmarge

Blogs - Inspiration

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