Tour of Rijnsburg: visiting a museum

Your route starts at Herberg Welgelegen. In Rijnsburg you can visit the Spinozahuisje. The world-famous Dutch philosopher Spinoza lived in this simple day laborer's house from 1661 to 1663. The entire house has been used as a museum since 2012. Among other things, there is a bookcase in which Spinoza's book collection has been reconstructed, as he left it when he died. When you cross the threshold here, you follow in the footsteps of none other than Albert Einstein: he visited the Spinozahuisje in 1920. Museum Oud-Rijnsburg is housed in a beautifully restored eighteenth-century building. Here you can learn more about the history of Rijnsburg. For example, about the medieval women's abbey in the tradition of Cluny, where only noble women could enter. You also make a round through the Dorpsweide.