By Air

The Eindhoven Airport is the closest airport, located approximately 8 kilometres from the town centre. The airport serves as a military air base and a civilian commercial airport.Eindhoven Airport is the second busiest in the Netherlands (after Schiphol).There are flights with Air France to London City. Ryanair serves London Stansted airport, Dublin, Rome, Milan, Pisa, Marseille, Glasgow, Madrid, Valencia, Stockholm, Malta and Barcelona.In the summer season, Reykjavík is served with 2 weekly flights operated by Iceland Express.Transavia services Alicante, Antalya, Bodrum, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Gran Canaria, Innsbruck, Malaga, Majorca, Rhodos and Salzburg, although not all destinations during the whole year.

By Train

Eindhoven's central railway station is served by both intercity and local services while the smaller station, Eindhoven Beukenlaan is only served by local trains.Up until World War II, a train service connected Amsterdam to Liege via Eindhoven and Valkenswaard but the service was discontinued and the line broken up.Recently talks have resumed to have a service to Neerpelt, Belgium via Weert.

By Bus

The public transport of Eindhoven consists of almost 25 city bus lines, which also serve neighbouring cities like Veldhoven, Geldrop and Nuenen.Two of these buslines (401 and 402) are high quality public transport and the buses on these lines are so-called Phileas vehicles, a combination of tram and bus.The Phileas does not use the magnetic guidance anymore for some years due to the regional urban transport authority (SRE).Apart from the city lines there are some 30 regional and rush-hour lines.

By Road

The A2 / E25 motorway from Amsterdam to Luxemburg passes Eindhoven to the west and south of the city. The A2 connects to the highway A58 to Tilburg and Breda just north of the city. Just south of Eindhoven, the A2 connects to the A67 / E34 between Antwerp and Duisburg. In 2006, the A50 was completed connecting Eindhoven to Nijmegen and Zwolle.

Historic Open air museum of Eindhoven, Look-in museum, Fiesta del Sol, Park Hilaria, Dutch Design Week, Ice Sculpture Festival, Museum Kempenland, Park Theater Eindhoven

Historic Open air museum of Eindhoven

is an archaeological open air museum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands focusing on the Iron Age and Middle Ages of the province of Noord-Brabant.The museum is situated in the Genneper Parken park area in the southern side of the city.It focuses on the daily lives and routines of people in the time periods mentioned through demonstrations and recreations of buildings, practices and routines.For example there are demonstrations of cooking on open fire of games played in the Middle Ages and groups of school children are allowed to spend the night in the stables.The museum has several distinct target audiences.Primary among these are school children who comprise most of the visitors on weekdays.In the weekends and during holiday season the museum focuses on regular tourists.The museum features a lot of living history exhibits as well as semi-historical reenactments. During holiday seasons extra activities are staged for children.The museum also arranges historically themed corporate and family outings outside of opening hours. Some 60.000 people visited the museum in 2005.Luc Eekhout became director of the museum in September 2010.The museum was founded in 1982 by a group of teachers from the local teachers academy led by Anneke Boonstra; it was then known as the "prehistoric village".The first ten years were spent slowly and painstakingly building an Iron Age village with help of many volunteers and local unemployed people.In 1995 the museum drew national and international attention with the life experiment. Officially called "For 2 Moons" it involved a small group (including the director Anneke Boonstra) withdrawing from civilization for two months to live life as it was in the Iron Age.Towards the end of the 1990s the museum received European subsidies, allowing it to double in size and add a whole new theme on the new grounds: the Middle Ages.

Look-in museum

is an originally themed "micro museum" in the Dutch city of Eindhoven. It is located in the washhouse of the former linen factory Van den Briel & Verster on the Dommelstraat.The original factory was shut down in 1936, after which the washhouse was abandoned for a time. It was then converted into a bicycle parking area for the city police, then into youth center Effenaar and cultural center Cultureel Centrum 2B. It was also in use as private housing at that time.The ground floor of the building has been in use as the Inkijkmuseum since March 21, 2004. The idea of the "look-in" museum is to host small exhibits which are viewed by the public from outside the building, by looking in through the windows. Such a micro-exhibit might consists of works of art, musical instruments, cultural anthropological artifacts or objects linked to a historical event.The museum underwent a short renovation in 2008, reopening on October 17.

Fiesta del Sol

is a music and theater in the city of Eindhoven.In 2008 is from June 27 to June 29 for the 29th time the festival.During the festival there is a program of music and theater with a mix of culture and entertainment.Example, there are an exotic Brazilian music market and a parade with 300 musicians and dancers.In 2008, occurred over 60 (inter) national bands and more than 20 musical loopgroepen 20 (street) theater acts on alternating from street to special stages.In 2008 the festival had 200,000 visitors.

Park Hilaria

The Eindhoven fair is a concept Fairground Park.It is not a typical fair where you can enter from all sides, but a "park" closed with a fence and complete with main entrance.However the park is free and since 2002 Kennedylaan in Eindhoven.The fair is about one kilometer long.In 2007, attracted almost 500,000 visitors to the fair.The attractions at the park should have fixed price fares from major attractions werken.De 3, Euro per ride and the little children's attractions and 1.50 euro.Family attractions fall under the category of major attractions and therefore not use the maximum fares of 1.50 euros per journey. For 2002 was "the fair of London" on six of the city, namely Shopping Woensel, the Woenselse Market, the Franz Lehar's Square, St. Trudoplein, St. Gerardus Square and General Botha Street.Some of these places there is still a "buurtkermisje".Since 2008 there has also added to the theatrical fairground.Cirque Boufon gave several performances every day, making an old tradition was restored, as previously circus and fairground moved around together.The company of the European circus gave performances in a magical world of music, theater, dance, acrobatics and spectacular with special attention to lighting effects.Cirque Bouffon was founded in 1999 by Frederic Boul Zipperlin, former member of the Canadian group Cirque du Soleil.

Dutch Design Week

is an annual nine-day large-scale international event in Eindhoven, where design is central in all facets. The event reflects the determination of Eindhoven to profile itself as a design and technology area and the design environment to expand and strengthen. With Dutch Design Week in 2002 has started with 20 participants, these 180 events in 2008.The main components are the annual "Graduation Show" with graduation from the Design Academy Eindhoven and the exhibition and awards from the Dutch Design Awards .The event takes place annually in October. At dozens of locations throughout the city exhibitions, lectures, exhibits, etc. on display. Program locations, the White Lady , the Clock building in the area of Strijp-S , the TU / e , the Design House , TAC (Temporary Art Centre) and numerous smaller sites in the city.

Ice Sculpture Festival

is a festival where a complete snow and ice sculpture park is being built to a specific theme.The first ice sculpture festival in the Netherlands took place in Eindhoven in 2003. After 2004 and 2006 for the fourth time in Eindhoven, held from December 8, 2007 until February 10, 2008. The sixth Dutch Ice Sculpture Festival was on December 6, 2008 until February 1, 2009 event held on the field in the park Wezenland in Zwolle.The seventh and eighth Ice Sculpture Festival took place in Roermond.The tent where the festival is held is an area of ​​approximately 2500 m2 (may vary) and there is an inside temperature of -8 C °.Approx. 300 tons of ice and 400 tons of snow by an international team of professional snow and ice sculptors transformed into meter high sculptures.The lighting is specially tuned to an optimal result with a minimum temperature effect. About 70% were in 2006 (/ 2007) in Eindhoven LEDs are a portion of gas discharge (metal halide fixtures and moving heads). Together with the artists (carvers), the lighting designer (Jasper Schimmel) and supplier (Rombouts Equipment Show) responsible for the final result. After hanging the lights in the roof (3 days work), the ice into the hall. Then follows a construction / Carv period of about 2.5 weeks. During this period, the ice sculptures created. Immediately afterwards, the ground mounted light and follow the illumination of the images (two days work).

Museum Kempenland

is a regional museum located in the Stone Church in Eindhoven.The first plans to establish a city museum was created in 1920 , immediately after the formation of the Greater Municipality of Eindhoven. Officially, the museum was founded in 1932.The first museum in the former town hall at the Law Street, was established in 1937 opened.The museum remained until 1939, after which the museum until 1954 a room in the Van Abbe Museum was available.From 1954 to 1971 was the museum housed in the Waag building at Paradise Lane then to 1982 in the former county court to Stratumseind ​​32 and ever since the Stone Church.The museum has a collection in the field of Folklore, Painting and Sculpture of North-Brabant artists and Religious Art.Furthermore, each year some ten different exhibitions organized.Occasionally there are also lectures and music or choir performances instead.The Stone Church is a monument designed by architect Hubert van Groenendael.In 1919 the church was completed.The design of the Romanesque Revival church is taken from the St. Lawrence Basilica in Rome.Because of declining church attendance in 1971 the last service was held.The building was quickly into disrepair.Through placement on the monument in 1977 remains the municipal building for demolition preserved and restored after general and adapted to receive the rezoning in 1983 as a museum.In 2001 the building is on the list of national monuments placed.

Park Theater Eindhoven

is the designation used for the theater building that just south of downtown Eindhoven right on the Stadswandelpark, is situated.At this location, the theater owes its name.For remodeling in early 2007 completion, was named Stadsschouwburg Eindhoven.By Cees Oskam Geenen and Leo was designed Theatre on October 2 1964 opened in the presence of Princess Beatrix.The theater was very modern and quite unique in Europe.The first director Ben Ullinge. Ullinge attracted a lot of innovative theater, and it even provided a lot of influx of theater lovers from Belgium. Ullinge was succeeded by Jan Reijs. After Reijs was appointed a director who was a labor dispute with the city of Eindhoven. In 1992 was appointed director Fons Bruins.Late 90's the desire to build a new hall increased. Ultimately, the multi Philipszaal come about and the former Globe Theatre Great Hall and renovated.The architect for both renovation and new construction was the Eindhoven office architects.On 16 January 2007 the Park Theatre opened.The new building was initiated by Fons Bruins after 14 years as director on 3 September 2007 retirement.Bruins were well able to sponsor the project to get over the bridge.On 3 September 2007 he was succeeded by the current director, Giel Pastor former director of theater the drums Hoogeveen.

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