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Hidden treasures: Eise Eisinga Planetarium

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The world's oldest functioning planetarium was built by an eighteenth-century wool-comber in the Netherlands. Alison Abbot reports, in the second of her monthly series on small museums

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The Eise Eisinga Planetarium is open Tuesday to Saturday 10:00–17:00 and Sunday 13:00–17:00. It is also open Monday afternoons during the summer. http://tinyurl.com/2ykck4 .

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Abbot, A. Hidden treasures: Eise Eisinga Planetarium. Nature 451, 1057 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/4511057a

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