Eindhoven and surroundings
Where creativity meets history
Eindhoven is located in the southeast of North Brabant region, and is a city where creativity meets history. This is the city of Philips and PSV, but also of designer Piet Hein Eek and the outstanding Van Abbe Museum. The captivating museums, but also striking architecture, amazing wall paintings, the finest shops, excellent restaurants and plenty of greenery in the city make Eindhoven a must-visit destination for the whole family. It can be combined easily with the countryside just around the corner, such as De Groote Heide national border park and De Groote Peel National Park.
Closer to het DAF Museum
You will get to learn all about the history of this world-famous vehicle manufacturer at the DAF Museum in Eindhoven. It houses an unusual collection of cars and offers many other activities.
Closer to het preHistorisch Dorp
You can go on an adventure in the preHistorisch Dorp in Eindhoven and learn a lot at the same time about more than 15,000 years of history in and around Eindhoven. Make your own fire, learn to shoot with a bow and arrow, and bake your own pots. No wonder that the preHistorisch Dorp (preHistoric Village) has grown to become the most popular day out in the Netherlands!
Closer to Philips Fruittuin
Enjoy a relaxing picnic in the Philips Fruittuin (fruit garden), a lovely area of greenery on the edge of the city. Play among the fruit trees and enjoy everything you will find in your well-filled picnic basket. Or maybe you prefer a delicious pancake in the restaurant?
Closer to Evoluon
Eindhoven’s most iconic building, the Evoluon, is once again open to the public with the RetroFuture exhibition. You can explore how we used to look towards the future in times gone by, and what our expectations of the future are nowadays. And all of this in a spectacular and imaginative setting with design, art, science and film.
Closer to Sagas and Legends
You can discover exciting sagas and legends by bike in the area around Eindhoven. Wonderful cycle routes with names such as De Gloeiige (The Glow), De Witte Vos (The White Fox), De Dansende Katten (The Dancing Cats) and Zwarte Kaat (Black Kaat) will take you past enticing places where local tales come to life. But only if you dare…
Closer to Van Gogh Village Museum
The famous artist Vincent van Gogh lived in Nuenen, close to Eindhoven. It was here that he painted his first masterpiece, The Potato Eaters. Come and find out all about the life and work of Van Gogh in the rebuilt Van Gogh Village Museum in Nuenen. You can discover the effects of light and colour for yourself in an unusual way in the brand new Lightlab, just like Vincent van Gogh did in his time. It’s a unique experience (opens 20 April).
Closer to Museum Helmond
Museum Helmond is a museum and a castle all in one. You will meet the castle inhabitants from bygone centuries in the largest moated castle in the Netherlands, and you can experience their stories of the castle. How was the castle built, how did in function during wartime and how did its residents live?
Other fun activities in Eindhoven and surroundings
Allow yourself be carried away by light spectacles and uplifting music with huge floor projections.
You will visit not only the pitch, the players’ tunnel and the changing rooms, you will also get to see the press centre and the VIP box.
One of the leading contemporary art museums in Europe, with an extensive international collection by artists such as Marc Chagall, Piet Mondriaan and Pablo Picasso.
Museum Klok & Peel in Asten shows how the Groote Peel National Park has developed over the past ten thousand years. The museum also has the largest collection of chiming bells and carillons in the world.
This life-like outdoor museum in Gemert has on many occasions been nominated as the most enjoyable (family) day out in North Brabant. It is a wonderful experience for young and old.
Nominated by the Spanish newspaper El Pais as one of the ten best observation towers in the world, you can look out across the natural surroundings and the many outdoor activities from a height of 26 metres.
Valkenswaard is home to the only museum in the world that is entirely devoted to the art of lithography and lithographic printing.
This delightful little museum shows in an interactive way what life was like in the Kempen region until 1950.