Museum Windmill De Valk

Molen de Valk is a tower mill from 1743. The mill is still used, and visitors to this place can not only see the exhibition, but also look at the miller's work. You can admire the spacious apartment arranged in 1869 when the mill was owned by the Van Rhijn Miller family. Its equipment is largely intact. An interesting fact is also the track wheel from 1697 (so older than the mill itself).

The current construction replaced the earlier wooden mill, which was erected in 1667. It had to be high enough to rise above the houses in its surroundings to catch enough wind. The exhibition rooms are on the first, second and third floor. There are exhibitions here: "Mill, the symbol of the Netherlands", "Leiden mills guild, Leiden mills and De Valk history", "History of milling".