Boerhaave Museum's history began in 1907, when a Historical Exhibition of Natural Science and Medicine was held in the of
Leiden University. The many objects in the exhibition came from all the learned corners of the country. It was a great success and there were immediately calls to set up a permanent science history exhibit. ImageSize = width:750 height:autoscale barincrement:40 PlotArea = left:55 right:10 bottom:23 top:10 AlignBars = justify Colors = id:name value:rgb(0.9,0.9,0.9) • id:institute1 value:rgb(0.9,0.5,0.5) • id:institute2 value:rgb(1,0.5,0.5) id:institute1 value:rgb(0.5,0.5,0.8) id:institute2 value:rgb(0.5,0.5,1) id:location1 value:rgb(0.5,0.7,0.5) id:location2 value:rgb(0.5,0.8,0.5) id:lightgrey value:rgb(0.9,0.9,0.9) id:black value:black id:white value:white id:red value:rgb(0.7,0,0) BackgroundColors = canvas:lightgrey Period = from:1928 till:2016 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:10 start:1930 ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:1 start:1928 BarData = bar:Name text:Name bar:Institute text:Institute bar:Location text:Location PlotData= align:left textcolor:black fontsize:8 mark:(line,black) width:25 bar:Name from:start till:end color:name at: 1928 shift:(4,4) text: The Dutch Museum of the at: 1928 shift:(4,-8) text: History of Natural Sciences at: 1947 shift:(4,4) text:The Dutch National Museum for the History of the Natural Sciences aka textcolor:red at: 1947 shift:(4,-8) text:Rijksmuseum Boerhaave align:center textcolor:black fontsize:9 shift:(0,-5) bar:Institute from: 1928 till:1947 color:institute1 text:Private Foundation from: 1947 till:end color:institute2 text:National Museum bar:Location from: 1931 till:1991 color:location1 text:Steenstraat 1 from: 1991 till:end color:location2 fontsize:8 text:Lange Sint Agnietenstraat 10 ==Collection==