Tour of Museum Boerhaave

The begging of the tour of Museum Boerhaave started out a little shaky. We were put in a very small hot room with uncomfortable chairs. It seemed very unnecessary for the tour to tell us what the old museum was like when all of us will probably never even see the new museum. Then they went over what the new Museum might be like. It seemed more like we were just there to give impute on what the new museum should be like. However, after the lecture on what the new museum is going to look like, we were allowed to do something I didn't think was even possible. We were allowed into the storage facilities and see things that not everyone will ever get to see close up.

First we went to a room with closets and we saw two or three things. One of the objects being one of the first artificial kidney. Most of the stuff in that room not even our tour guide, Paul, knew what things were. Then we went into a room with open shelves and that is when I realized that this  was a very special tour. There was a room with hundreds upon hundreds of microscopes starting form very old to more modern. There was even a priceless microscope, which I don't think I am allowed to name, that we were allowed to look at up close. We saw a Dutch flags given to the Netherlands by the USA after their first moon landing. It has moon rock infused in resin in the plaque. Actually, I feel we may have actually offended Paul. All of these American students were so interested in this artifact that could be interpreted as the US showing off. Then we saw a room that had hundreds of specimens  preserved in jars. I could have spent hours in just one of those rooms. In all, this tour of the Museum Boerhaave was an amazing experience that only the eighteen of us will ever experience.