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The world's oldest functioning planetarium was built by an eighteenth-century wool-comber in the Netherlands. Alison Abbot reports, in the second of her monthly series on small museums

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1. Alison Abbott is Nature's Senior European Correspondent.,
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The Eise Eisinga Planetarium is open Tuesday to Saturday 10:00–17:00 and Sunday 13:00–17:00. It is also open Monday afternoons during the summer. http://tinyurl.com/2ykck4 .

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Abbot, A. Hidden treasures: Eise Eisinga Planetarium.Nature 451, 1057 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/4511057a

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• Published: 27 February 2008
• Issue Date: 28 February 2008
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/4511057a