About Museum Rotterdam

The Schielandshuis is the only 17th century building in the center of Rotterdam that survived the Blitz during the 2nd World War. It was built between 1662 and 1665 and was visited by the French emperor Napoleon in 1811. A few years later Alexander 1 from Russia visited the Schielandhuis but refused to stay in the same room where Napoleon had stayed. In the Schielandshuis you cen see a big very collection of historical objects but also models of the city before and just after the Blitz during the second World War. You can see how the city would have looked like without this destroying Blitz.