Experience
heritage after dark

Sales of the Early Bird combination tickets for all three locations will start on Wednesday, 14 October at 16:00 CET. Regular ticket sales will begin on Tuesday, 20 October at 12:00 CET.

Good to know: tickets will be available to purchase right up until the day of the event!

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A group ticket is valid for 5 people. The entire group must enter at the same time. 

If your group is not complete when your time slot starts, we can only allow the people who are present to enter at that time. The missing members cannot enter later using the same group ticket. 

No. Tickets are personal and cannot be transferred to another person. 

You will receive your ticket directly by email after completing your purchase. Be sure to check your inbox and, if you can’t find your ticket, your spam folder.

No. Tickets cannot be cancelled after purchase and no refunds will be issued. Tickets cannot be resold or transferred.

Yes! There’s no need to print your ticket. Simply open your ticket on your phone, turn your screen brightness all the way up and have your QR code ready at the entrance. 

No stress! First, check your inbox and spam folder. Can’t find your ticket there? You can easily retrieve your order via Lost Ticket.
Still having trouble? Please contact [email protected]. 

Unfortunately, none of the three venues are wheelchair accessible.

Night of the Castle, taking place on 20 November, is a pilot edition. The foundation is using this event to test the concept and explore the potential for an annual autumn event celebrating heritage. If the pilot is successful, Night of the Castle could expand to include other castles, country houses and historic estates across the Netherlands from 2027 onwards.

With Night of the Castle, Stichting Dag van het Kasteel is introducing a new way to experience heritage. You can look forward to evening trails, stories and legends, light and sound, and activities inspired by the history of each location.

Each venue will develop its own programme, with its unique history at the heart of the experience. As darkness falls, stories, historical figures, events and legends come to life in new and exciting ways.

The venues will announce their individual programmes soon!

Curious to discover what there is to experience? The venues will reveal their full programmes at a later date, but here’s a little sneak peek…

Duivenvoorde Castle in Voorschoten:
A forbidden love. A castle full of secrets. And an escape that could change everything…

Meet Maria van Wassenaer and her great love, Wolf Salzer von Elwingen. They were madly in love, but there was one major problem: Maria was of noble birth, while he was “merely” a servant.

Her father and brothers do everything they can to drive the two lovers apart: she was placed under house arrest, sent to live with her aunts and even confined to an asylum.

Will Maria and Wolf let themselves be stopped? Or will they manage to find their way to each other despite all the restrictions and secrets?

Follow the whispering trail and take part in a shadow hunt through Duivenvoorde Castle and its gardens, decipher secret letters and unravel the clues left by the household staff. Can you help Maria escape?

Oud Wassenaar Castle
Oud Wassenaar Castle is full of hidden codes, not on paper, but in marble, wood and plasterwork. This house was built like a social code, waiting to be deciphered by those who look closely enough.

Zoeken for clues hidden throughout the castle’s rooms. You will learn to read what the walls are saying: how a ceiling points in a certain direction, why a table is laid in a particular way, and why a clock strikes at a specific time.

Whispers have it that, during the inauguration party, a guest saw something through a peephole that they were never meant to see. Whether that is true is for you to discover.

One castle. One code. And an answer that has been waiting to be found all along.

Can you crack the code of Oud Wassenaar?

Huygens Museum
One woman. Three suitors. A love story full of unexpected twists…

Meet Suzanna van Baerle and the three men who fell for her: Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Constantijn Huygens and his brother Maurits Huygens.

Nowadays, you can easily slide into someone’s DMs, but in the seventeenth century, the men had to be more creative to win Suzanna’s heart. How did they approach it? And who did Suzanna ultimately choose?

Follow the whispering trail through the Huygens Museum and discover the remarkable love story of Suzanna and her suitors at the country estate of Hofwijck. Which green flags and red flags will you spot? During this winter’s evening, wander past the romantic spots in the house and garden and let yourself be swept away by a love story full of romance and dilemmas.