Universities in Leiden

Some of the specimens on display at the Leiden University Medical Center have been helping educate physicians since the 17th century.

For over 100 years the most important physicists in the world have autographed this university wall.

A relic of the old jail still stands in its original location.

Once the world's biggest telescope, it was later used as a coat hanger by a famous Dutch astronomer.

Graffiti covers the walls of a room where university students through the centuries have waited nervously to defend their theses.