An old factory building in the city centre, a collection of DAF vehicles and paths through a historic stream landscape: Eindhoven offers different ways to explore the city’s history and natural surroundings. When planning your visit, you can consider cultural visits, a stadium tour and walks, each with its own distinct focus.

Industrial history, technology and a stadium tour

The Philips Museum is housed in the old factory building in the centre of Eindhoven where Gerard Philips made his first light bulbs in 1891. The brAInpower exhibition adds artificial intelligence to this look at history: individual visitors can explore and experience it through various interactive museum installations. The exhibition is described as unique in the region. Exhibition details may change, so check the information before your visit.

The DAF Museum focuses on cars, trailers, buses and trucks. The vehicles bear witness to DAF’s rich industrial heritage. The museum is also in the city centre, about a 15-minute walk from Eindhoven Central Station. Together, the Philips Museum and DAF Museum focus on industrial history, but present it through different themes: the first light bulbs and an interactive AI exhibition at one, and DAF vehicles at the other.

The PSV stadium tour offers a different kind of visit. It lasts approximately 75 minutes and includes the pitch, the fully renovated players’ tunnel and the changing rooms. Admission to the PSV Museum is also included in the ticket. Tour format and ticket inclusions may change, so check the latest information in advance. This makes it possible to distinguish the stadium tour as a separate, time-limited experience from the museum visits.

More perspectives on the city and its culture

The exhibition “Once Upon a Time... the Earth” at the Next Nature Museum takes visitors through the history, inner workings and possible futures of our planet. As the exhibition programme may change, it is worth checking the latest exhibition information. De Berenkuil offers a very different way to experience urban culture: this open-air museum is a meeting place for Eindhoven’s urban cultural scene. Graffiti artists have complete artistic freedom there.

Green spaces and walks in Eindhoven

Genneper Parken is in the south of the city and includes a historic stream landscape. Places in the park include the Genneper Watermolen, the Clarissenklooster and the Eindhoven Museum. The area also offers many opportunities for sport and recreation. Several walking and cycling routes lead through the park’s green spaces from P+R Genneper Parken. This gives you the option of choosing walks in green spaces as a focus alongside museums and the stadium tour.

The city’s “Eindje Om” walks are neighbourhood walks, no more than three to four kilometres long, for and through residents. They pass places of interest and follow unexpected paths. One example is “Eindje Om De Dommel door de stad”: the walk passes surprising green spaces such as the city garden and cultural-historical features such as the factory wall of NV Linnenfabrieken Briel & Verster. You can also use an interactive digital map to plan a route along Eindhoven’s heritage signs.

The different features of the walking options can help you choose between them: the “Eindje Om” routes have a stated maximum length of three to four kilometres; several walking and cycling routes through the park start at P+R Genneper Parken. The map, in turn, is designed for planning a route along the heritage signs. During a stay in Eindhoven, you can therefore choose between a neighbourhood walk, paths through a green space and a route linked to the city’s cultural heritage.

For the general travel overview: Eindhoven.