Guided Tour: Travelling through Kaleidoscope & the Aletta Jacobs room

What is a BMW car doing in the collection of the University Museum? What stories are behind a whaler's cap? How did Aletta Jacobs end up at the university? Which countries did Jacobs visit with her iconic cabin trunk to promote women's emancipation? And why did she write her book The Woman. Her Build and Her Internal Organs?

You will get answers to these and many more questions during the guided tour of the temporary exhibition Kaleidoscope and a visit to the Aletta Jacobs Room.

During the tour, we will reveal the various collections that the University Museum holds, from zoology to ethnology and anatomy. You will go on a journey through numerous scientific fields. This tour, This tour, in which a university history student is your guide, focuses on the history of science and the life story of Aletta Jacobs.

At the end of the tour, we invite you to determine which objects you find most beautiful, special or spectacular by doing the Object Tinder. Together we will determine what the real treasures of the museum collection are.

Practical information

• Costs: the tours are freely accessible upon presentation of a valid entrance ticket. RUG students and employees have free entrance, as do Museum Card holders.

• Registration is not required, but is appreciated and can be done by sending an email to universiteitsmuseum@rug.nl. This way we can estimate the number of interested visitors.