Route description
Visitors can address at the reception desk at the office/delivery entrance ("2" on the map below), which is located at the Darwinweg 2, which is not the museum entrance. Here you can also find a car park (at the Mendelweg, second barrier at your left hand), where visitors can park their car.
By train
- get off the train at NS Leiden Central Station
- leave the station at the LUMC/ Oegstgeest side
- walk toward the LUMC Hospital
- follow the pedestrian signs to Naturalis (approx. 10 minutes walk)
Time tables can be found at the website of the Dutch Railways (NS)
by car from Amsterdam (A4 motorway)
- take the A4 motorway until the junction with the A44 motorway near Burgerveen
- turn onto the A44 in the direction of Leiden West
- leave the motorway at exit 8 Leiden
- follow the signs for Leiden Centrum (Plesmanlaan)
- follow the signs for Naturalis (Darwinweg)
- turn left to the Mendelweg, report at the intercom at the car park (2nd barrier left)
by car from Utrecht (N11 motorway)
- from Bodegraven, follow the N11 to Leiden
- turn left onto the A4 motorway in the direction of Den Haag
- leave the motorway at the next exit (= exit 7, Zoeterwoude-Dorp)
- follow the N206 towards Leiden
- keep following the N206 towards Leiden Zuid
- follow the N206 for a further six kilometres in the direction of Katwijk
- near the Holiday Inn, turn right twice and follow the signs to Naturalis (Plesmanweg)
- turn left at the sign Naturalis (Darwinweg)
- turn left to the Mendelweg, report at the intercom at the car park (2nd barrier left)
by car from Rotterdam/The Hague (A4 motorway)
- take the A4 motorway
- leave the motorway at the first exit (= exit 7, Zoeterwoude-Dorp)
- follow the N206 towards Leiden
- keep following the N206 towards Leiden Zuid
- follow the N206 for a further six kilometres in the direction of Katwijk
- near the Holiday Inn, turn right twice and follow the signs to Naturalis (Plesmanweg)
- turn left at the sign Naturalis (Darwinweg)
- turn left to the Mendelweg, report at the intercom at the car park (2nd barrier left)
by car from Noordwijk/Katwijk
- take the N206 towards Leiden
- at the junction with the A44 motorway, go straight ahead towards Leiden Centrum
- turn left at the sign Naturalis (Darwinweg)
- turn left to the Mendelweg, report at the intercom at the car park (2nd barrier left)
Friday, August 27, 2010