Come and have lunch or a drink in the nicest museum café in Friesland! Right in the center with a view of the beautiful Wilhelminaplein, you can enjoy dishes with sustainable Frisian regional products, carefully prepared by our Chef Johan. You can visit the cafe without a museum ticket.
The Fries Museum is a dynamic museum in the heart of the bustling city of Leeuwarden. Step inside the modern building and be inspired by your favorite stories or artwork. Grutte Pier's sword, a romantic painting by the world-famous Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Gerrit Benner's fairytale landscape... Or the adventurous life of Mata Hari.
The museum is the cultural hotspot of the North. Surprising, ever-changing exhibitions tell stories from the Middle Ages to MC Escher. Immerse yourself in Friesland: from the unique Hindelooper period room and the battle with the water to leading design and masters such as Rembrandt and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. In the Frisian Resistance Museum you will hear stories that touch, confront and make you think. About resistance and persecution in the Second World War, but also about freedom today. On the third floor you can admire fresh contemporary art by well-known and up-and-coming artists from home and abroad.
Take your (grand)children or nephews and nieces for a fun day out where they secretly learn a lot. After your museum visit, enjoy a local lunch at Café Thús, a Frisian s
