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Greenhouses to visit in the Netherlands

The Verrière atlas lists 32 greenhouses in the Netherlands, built between 1869 and 2017.

Three faces of the Dutch greenhouse: Leiden's Victoriakas, in one of the world's oldest botanical gardens; Amsterdam's Palmenkas, a rare Amsterdam School glasshouse; and Arnhem's Burgers' Bush, a pioneer of fully enclosed rainforests.

32Greenhouses
1869Oldest — Tropische Kas, Beetsterzwaag (Lycklamahûs glasshouses)
2017Newest — Burgers' Mangrove (Royal Burgers' Zoo)
27Cities
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South Holland (8)

Historic greenhouses of Villa Augustus (kassen and Limonaia), Dordrecht, South Holland
1910 · 2006

Historic greenhouses of Villa Augustus (kassen and Limonaia)

🇳🇱 Dordrecht, South Holland
Two 1910-1911 kitchen-garden greenhouses, saved from demolition near Utrecht and rebuilt at the foot of a water tower turned hotel-restaurant.
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Glasshouses of the TU Delft Hortus Botanicus, Delft, South Holland
1922

Glasshouses of the TU Delft Hortus Botanicus

🇳🇱 Delft, South Holland
A glasshouse complex built in 1922 to study tropical plants of industrial use, centred on the large Van Iterson house.
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Rivièrahal and Victoria house of Diergaarde Blijdorp, Rotterdam, South Holland
1940

Rivièrahal and Victoria house of Diergaarde Blijdorp

🇳🇱 Rotterdam, South Holland
A 1940 hall by Sybold van Ravesteyn, designed as a winter garden, whose east wing keeps its original basin for the giant water lily.
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Historic greenhouses of the Westlands Museum (Westlands Museum voor Streek- en Tuinbouwhistorie), Honselersdijk, South Holland
1995

Historic greenhouses of the Westlands Museum (Westlands Museum voor Streek- en Tuinbouwhistorie)

🇳🇱 Honselersdijk, South Holland
A museum garden where old greenhouses, salvaged from across the Westland, tell the story of the Netherlands' 'glass city'.
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Willem-Alexander Pavilion (Keukenhof), Lisse, South Holland
1996

Willem-Alexander Pavilion (Keukenhof)

🇳🇱 Lisse, South Holland
Keukenhof's largest indoor space ends each season with what the park bills as the world's largest lily show.
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2006

Vlinders aan de Vliet (tropical butterfly garden)

🇳🇱 Leidschendam (Leidschendam-Voorburg), South Holland
A former plant-growing greenhouse turned in two months into a jungle where at least 1,500 tropical butterflies fly.
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2010 · 1913

Greenhouse of the Botanical Garden Kralingen (De Kas)

🇳🇱 Rotterdam, South Holland
A small 2010 greenhouse in a free botanical garden in Rotterdam: palms, carnivorous plants and, in winter, potted citrus as in an orangery.
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Woestijnkas (Desert Greenhouse), Trompenburg Gardens & Arboretum, Rotterdam (Kralingen), South Holland

Woestijnkas (Desert Greenhouse), Trompenburg Gardens & Arboretum

🇳🇱 Rotterdam (Kralingen), South Holland
A glasshouse of cacti and succulents, partly arranged by geographical origin, in an 8-hectare garden and arboretum in Rotterdam.
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North Holland (6)

Restaurant De Kas, former municipal nursery greenhouse (Frankendael Park), Amsterdam-Oost, North Holland
1926 · 2001

Restaurant De Kas, former municipal nursery greenhouse (Frankendael Park)

🇳🇱 Amsterdam-Oost, North Holland
A municipal-nursery greenhouse of 1926 with its original steel frame restored, where diners eat among vegetables and herbs grown on site.
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Palmkas (palm house) of Hortus Overzee, Den Helder, North Holland
1939

Palmkas (palm house) of Hortus Overzee

🇳🇱 Den Helder, North Holland
A 1939 palm house built to overwinter the town's street plants, still keeping parts stamped with the Krupp name.
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1968 · 1967

Succulent Greenhouse (Succulentenkas), Botanische Tuin Zuidas

🇳🇱 Amsterdam-Zuid (Zuidas), North Holland
The most extensive cactus and succulent collection in the Netherlands, more than 30,000 plants under a university greenhouse of 1968.
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Greenhouses of the Historische Tuin Aalsmeer (historic horticultural garden), Aalsmeer, North Holland
1982

Greenhouses of the Historische Tuin Aalsmeer (historic horticultural garden)

🇳🇱 Aalsmeer, North Holland
Rose houses, a 1935 pot-plant house and a 1965 wide-span house trace the rise of flower growing south of Amsterdam.
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Drieklimatenkas (Three-Climate Greenhouse), Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, Amsterdam, North Holland
1993

Drieklimatenkas (Three-Climate Greenhouse), Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam

🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland
The first public greenhouse in the Netherlands to be heated without gas, through a heat-and-cold exchange with the neighbouring H'ART Museum.
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Vlinderpaviljoen (Butterfly Pavilion), ARTIS Royal Zoo, Amsterdam (Plantage), North Holland
2006

Vlinderpaviljoen (Butterfly Pavilion), ARTIS Royal Zoo

🇳🇱 Amsterdam (Plantage), North Holland
More than a thousand butterflies fly freely under a transparent air-cushion roof, in a tropical garden with a height difference of over 4 m.
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Drenthe (3)

Vlinderparadijs Papiliorama (Havelte tropical butterfly greenhouse), Havelte (Westerveld), Drenthe
1998

Vlinderparadijs Papiliorama (Havelte tropical butterfly greenhouse)

🇳🇱 Havelte (Westerveld), Drenthe
Hundreds of tropical butterflies have flown free since 1998 in more than 900 m² of greenhouse on the edge of the Holtingerveld heath.
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2016

Rimbula (Wildlands Adventure Zoo Emmen)

🇳🇱 Emmen, Drenthe
Recognised by Guinness World Records as the largest indoor rainforest in a zoo, it is home to Asian elephants among other species.
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Vlindertempel (Butterfly Temple), Wildlands Adventure Zoo Emmen, Emmen, Drenthe
2016

Vlindertempel (Butterfly Temple), Wildlands Adventure Zoo Emmen

🇳🇱 Emmen, Drenthe
The entrance to Jungola, a ruined temple inspired by Angkor under an ETFE roof, where butterflies fly among tropical plants.
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Gelderland (3)

Oud Groevenbeek grape house (druivenkas), Ermelo, Gelderland
1910 · 1998

Oud Groevenbeek grape house (druivenkas)

🇳🇱 Ermelo, Gelderland
The only survivor of a once-vast glasshouse complex, an iron-and-glass grape house still bears vines about a century old.
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Burgers' Desert (Royal Burgers' Zoo), Arnhem, Gelderland
1994

Burgers' Desert (Royal Burgers' Zoo)

🇳🇱 Arnhem, Gelderland
Under a roof of air cushions, this 7,500 m² covered rock desert recreates the Sonoran and Mojave deserts.
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Burgers' Mangrove (Royal Burgers' Zoo), Arnhem, Gelderland
2017

Burgers' Mangrove (Royal Burgers' Zoo)

🇳🇱 Arnhem, Gelderland
A 60-metre ETFE-clad dome shelters the world's largest indoor mangrove, complete with simulated tides and manatees.
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Friesland (2)

1869

Tropische Kas, Beetsterzwaag (Lycklamahûs glasshouses)

🇳🇱 Beetsterzwaag (Opsterland), Friesland
An 1869 lean-to vinery and a 1930 tropical house, kept by some fifty volunteers at the back of a Frisian gentry garden.
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Vijversburg Orangery (cactus house), Tytsjerk (Tytsjerksteradiel), Friesland

Vijversburg Orangery (cactus house)

🇳🇱 Tytsjerk (Tytsjerksteradiel), Friesland
A glass-roofed Frisian orangery that now serves as a volunteer-run cactus house, open on summer Sundays.
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Utrecht province (2)

Collection glasshouse and orangeries of the Oude Hortus (old botanic garden of Utrecht), Utrecht, Utrecht province
1907

Collection glasshouse and orangeries of the Oude Hortus (old botanic garden of Utrecht)

🇳🇱 Utrecht, Utrecht province
Five parallel glasshouses of 1907, first heated by a coal-fired boiler, linked by a glazed corridor to an orangery of 1768.
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Cantonspark Wintertuin (Winter Garden), Baarn, Utrecht province
1914–1915

Cantonspark Wintertuin (Winter Garden)

🇳🇱 Baarn, Utrecht province
Built in 1914-1915 for a merchant who made his fortune in the Dutch East Indies, it is one of the oldest surviving botanical glasshouses in the Netherlands.
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Elsewhere (8)

Victoriakas (Hortus Botanicus Leiden), Leiden
1870 · 1938

Victoriakas (Hortus Botanicus Leiden)

🇳🇱 Leiden
Beneath a cast-iron crown, giant water lilies have reigned since 1870.
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Palmenkas (Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam), Amsterdam
1911–1912

Palmenkas (Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam)

🇳🇱 Amsterdam
A rare Amsterdam School glasshouse, built to keep a brilliant botanist from leaving.
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Kitchen-garden wall glasshouse (muurkas) of Heeswijk Castle, Heeswijk-Dinther, North Brabant
1875 · 1992

Kitchen-garden wall glasshouse (muurkas) of Heeswijk Castle

🇳🇱 Heeswijk-Dinther, North Brabant
Described as the longest wall glasshouse in the Netherlands: 67.5 m of brick and glass at the back of a moated kitchen garden.
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Greenhouses of the walled kitchen garden of Twickel Castle (Ironhouse, carnation house, pits), Ambt Delden (Hof van Twente), Overijssel
1891–1915

Greenhouses of the walled kitchen garden of Twickel Castle (Ironhouse, carnation house, pits)

🇳🇱 Ambt Delden (Hof van Twente), Overijssel
An Ironhouse with soft-green glass, a carnation house of 1915 and three pits of 1891, all listed, in a Dutch castle's walled kitchen garden.
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Pantropica (formerly Orchideeën Hoeve), Luttelgeest (Noordoostpolder), Flevoland
1984

Pantropica (formerly Orchideeën Hoeve)

🇳🇱 Luttelgeest (Noordoostpolder), Flevoland
A former orchid nursery turned into a 25,000 m² covered tropical park where more than 2,000 butterflies fly.
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Burgers' Bush, Burgers' Zoo, Arnhem
1988

Burgers' Bush

🇳🇱 Burgers' Zoo, Arnhem
The first fully enclosed rainforest at this scale, since imitated by zoos around the world.
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Berkenhof Tropical Zoo (butterfly garden glasshouses), Kwadendamme (Langeweegje), Zeeland
1997

Berkenhof Tropical Zoo (butterfly garden glasshouses)

🇳🇱 Kwadendamme (Langeweegje), Zeeland
Born of a fuchsia garden, a butterfly garden opened in 1997 in a small single-glazed greenhouse and grew into a tropical zoo.
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Tropisch Paradijs, tropical hall of the Mondo Verde park, Landgraaf, Limburg

Tropisch Paradijs, tropical hall of the Mondo Verde park

🇳🇱 Landgraaf, Limburg
A tropical hall of over 4,000 m² under a horticultural-greenhouse roof, with more than a hundred free-flying birds, waterfalls, cycads and figs.
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Architecture in the Netherlands

Enneüs Heerma Bridge, Amsterdam
2001

Enneüs Heerma Bridge

🇳🇱 Amsterdam
A white steel bridge shaped like a double wave, two large arches joined by an inverted arch, the gateway to the IJburg district.
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Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA station, Amsterdam
2007

Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA station

🇳🇱 Amsterdam
An elevated eight-track station crowned by a zigzagging steel roof, above a 70-metre-wide boulevard where daylight comes down through long voids cut into the platforms.
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