Museums of the Canals

Museums of the Canals is a multimedia museum which highlights the development and importance of the city’s canals and charts some 400 years of history. A visit to the museum comprises of a lively audio-visual presentation (which lasts about 30 minutes) through 5 darkened exhibition rooms on the upper first floor.nThe first 2 rooms on the tour give an insight into the initial development of the canals and city walls, how the canals were subsequently expanded into the horseshoe shape as the city grew and how the garden areas between houses on adjacent canals were kept free from industrialisation.