Free audio walk in Utrecht
Museum Quarter & Ledig Erf
- 31 min
- 2.6 km
- 12 stops
- Free
Starts at Nicolaaskerkhof 8
About this walk
A relaxed walk through Utrecht’s Museum Quarter and on to Ledig Erf. You’ll pass quiet canals, old houses, and local cafés that show the city’s everyday charm. This route starts and ends at the same location.
The stops
Walk them in order; each story plays when you reach its pin.
- 1Stop 1
Centraal Museum Utrecht
The oldest city museum in the Netherlands is hiding a shipwreck in its basement, and that's just the beginning.
- 2Stop 2
De Twijnstraat
This narrow street has been selling things to people for over 700 years, and it has no intention of stopping.
Read the story - 3Stop 3
Louis Hartlooper Complex
A diamond cutter, a stubborn filmmaker, and a police station that became one of the most unlikely cinemas in the Netherlands.
Read the story - 4Stop 4
Herman Berkien Statue, Ledig Erf
One man loved his city so much that 20,000 football fans still sing his songs every match day.
Read the story - 5Stop 5
Cossack Day Monument
For a hundred years, this city threw one of the wildest street parties in the Netherlands, and almost nobody remembers it today.
Read the story - 6Stop 6
Bartholomeus Gasthuis
This quiet building on Lange Smeestraat has been taking in strangers, the sick, and the elderly since 1367, making it the oldest guesthouse in the entire country.
Read the story - 7Stop 7
't Oude Pothuys
This building has been standing since 1621, and somehow it keeps getting louder every decade.
Read the story - 8Stop 8
Catharijneconvent
This building has been a homeless shelter, a monastery, a hospital, a refugee camp, and a Nazi warehouse — and it's still standing.
Read the story - 9Stop 9
Bruntenhof
Behind a plain brick wall in the middle of a busy Dutch city, fifteen women once found something surprisingly rare: a home of their own.
- 10Stop 10
Sonnenborgh
The walls you're standing next to were built to survive cannonballs, and somehow ended up unlocking the secrets of the sun.
Read the story - 11Stop 11
Biru
A small bronze dog napping by the canal has quietly stolen the hearts of an entire city.
Read the story - 12Stop 12
Miffy Museum
The world's most famous bunny was born on a holiday beach trip, invented nightly for a little boy who couldn't sleep.
Ready when you are
Walk Museum Quarter & Ledig Erf with ROODS.
12 stops through Utrecht, about 31 minutes. Open ROODS in your browser, walk to the first pin and the story plays.
- Stories on a map, with narrated audio
- Walk at your own pace, stop where you like
- Runs in your browser. An app is optional.
