Five Activities During the Leiden Night of Museums!

On Saturday the 3rd of June, the fifteenth edition of the Leiden Night of Museum will take place. Just like every other year, students and scientists are part of the programme. In this article, we highlight five interesting activities! 

1. Anatomy Quiz: In the Academy Building of Leiden University, professor of clinical and experimental anatomy Marco de Ruiter will hold an exciting quiz about anatomy. There will be fifteen questions, with two possible answers. Do you know the most about the human body? There are two quiz moments, from 20:30 - 20:50 and from 22:45 - 23:05.
2: Lecture 'Plantblindness': In the Hortus botanical garden, botanical philosopher Norbert Peeters will give a lecture from 21:00 - 21:20 about plants, where the focus is on the fact that people are often blind for the issues which plant species face. Why can everyone name endangered animal species, but struggle with naming an endangered plant species? In his lecture, Peeters turns the natural order around, by giving plants precendence. 
3: Singer-songwriter Siris Anish: Siris Anish studies Philosophy at Leiden University and is a singer-songwriter. With his beautiful voice, he jumps from octave to octave. Combined with his direct texts, he strikes a chord with his audience. 
4: In the search of the perfect robot, a few have been designed who might not be up to that task. You can imagine emotional, pointless, curious and creative robots. But why were they made? Peter van der Putten and Maarten Lamers from the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science are giving a few mini-classes about the robots of the past, present and future in the Japanmuseum Sieboldhouse. The mini-class 'Discover the world of Robots' is at 20:30, the mini-class 'Where man and robot meet' at 21:30 and 22:30, and the mini-class 'Late night edition' about robots in the bedroom is at 23:30.
5: At Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, the Institute for Microbilogy will take you on a journey of discovery through the micro universe, by letting you discover it through microscopes which can enlarge something up 200x. Here you can see how a micro-organism produces antibiotics live and take a petridish home to see what kind of bacteria are growing on your fingers. 

If you would like to participate in the Leiden Night of Museums, you will have to order tickets, of which there are several possibilities, such as a combination with a dinner-arrangement at Leiden restaurants. For ordering tickets and more information, you can go to the Night of Museums' official website.