Museum lovers can eat their heart out in Delft. This small city has a magnificent history that comes to life in the various museums. Nowhere else is the history of the Low Countries quite as tangible.

Monuments
You will find traces of almost all of the different building styles through the ages on the facades of the Delft buildings. The glorious past of the city comes alive in its great number of monuments.

Sights
• Vrouw Juttenland
• Coat of arms of William the Silent on the City Hall
• Nieuwe Kerk (New Church)
• View of Delft by Johannes Vermeer, 1660-1661
• Delft canal (Molslaan)

Historic buildings
• Oude Kerk (Old Church) Piet Hein, Johannes Vermeer, Anthony van Leeuwenhoek graves
• Nieuwe Kerk (New Church), constructed between 1381 and 1496. It contains the Dutch royal family's burial vault, which between funerals is sealed with a 5000 kg cover stone
• The Prinsenhof (Princes' Court), now a museum
• City Hall
• The Oostpoort (East gate), built around 1400. This is the only remaining gate of the old city walls
• The Gemeenlandshuis or Huyterhuis, built in 1505, which houses the regional water authority Delfland since 1645
• Waag (Delft)

Delft museums

Delft monuments