Food and drinks
Settle down in your haven away from home. In the galley of the Maritime Museum you can enjoy delicious food and drinks during (and also outside) your museum visit.
Our kitchen is plain sailing
Our museum café 'Het Lage Licht' (Low Light in Dutch) is named after the lighthouse in our museum harbour is a genuine home port, where you can drop anchor for a while with a great cup of coffee and freshly baked apple pie, or for lunch or a drink with waterside terrace.
Opening hours
Tuesday till Saturday from 9.00 till 17.00 pm, Sundag from 10.00 till 17.00 pm.
The café has a fresh, maritime image and a contemporary interior. There are objects from our collection in the new café as well. A central display case, for instance, contains a model ship of no less than 2.5 metres long of the Nieuw Amsterdam, a former flagship of the Holland America Line. You can admire model ships behind the bar as well, for example an English lightship, a boatman’s boat, a ship made of cloves, and the prototype of a freighter that was intended to be nuclear powered.
Local and sustainable
Our kitchen is straightforward. As many dishes as possible are made from local and sustainable products. We change our menu regularly to work with seasonal products as much as possible.
Het Lage Licht lighthouse
'Het Lage Licht' café is named after the lighthouse in the Maritime Museum Harbour. From the end of the nineteenth century, lighthouse Lage Licht stood in Hook of Holland – together with another called the Hoge Licht (‘high light’) – guiding ships safely into the port of Rotterdam. The Lage Licht was decommissioned in 1967 and got its current spot in the museum’s harbour in the nineties.
The Maritime Museum offers a unique reception location in the heart of the harbor city with a view of the historic museum harbour. The maritime sector is deeply rooted in Dutch culture and forms the basis for our economic development in the past and today. You can feel the innovative and entrepreneurial power of this industry in the museum. We would like to tell you and your guests the fascinating story of the port of Rotterdam then, now and tomorrow and of the high-tech offshore sector in particular.
Loading and unloading ships, catching fish, scanning containers, hoisting sails, determining the destination together... And who is ready to tack? It's a party for children between 4 and 9 yearsto celebrate their children's party with Professor Splash! The children dive into the maritime world in the children's activity exhibition Professor Splash. The professor and his friends are about to set sail on their ships around the world, but there is still a lot to do before departure and the children can help with that.
