Spinoza’s Houses

The Spinoza House Society (VHS) is the proprietor of the Spinoza House Museum in Rijnsburg, a museum dedicated to Spinoza which, amongst other things, houses his library, the ‘Spinoza Boekerij’. The Spinoza House Society also manages the documentation room in Domus Spinoza, The Hague, Spinoza's last home and the place where he died.

Museum Het Spinozahuis
Spinoza lived in Rijnsburg (the ‘Spinoza House’) for several years from 1661 onwards, where he ground lenses and with equal accuracy reflected on and wrote down his ideas. The building was opened as a museum on March 24th, 1899. The library that Spinoza owned at the time of his death in 1677 has been largely reconstructed in Rijnsburg the ‘Boekerij’) and is a collection unique in the world.

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Domus Spinoza
Spinoza moved to Domus Spinoza in The Hague around 1671. Here he completed the Ethics, amongst other works. In the reading room at Paviljoensgracht 72-74, visitors can consult more than 1,500 books about Spinoza in various languages.

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