Art galleries in Leeuwarden

Leeuwarden, Friesland has 6 art galleries on the map. That's 6 galleries mapped around Leeuwarden. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Many are free to enter, so the only cost of a gallery afternoon is your time.

This guide covers every art gallery we could verify in and around Leeuwarden (within about 25 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Sidewalk Gallery and VHDG, plus Galerie De Roos van Tudor. If a gallery's missing from Leeuwarden's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Leeuwarden gallery lineup

6 in Leeuwarden, plus 6 more around Leeuwarden below:

What the map tells us about art galleries in Leeuwarden

None of the 6 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Smaller galleries can keep irregular hours, so check the website before a special trip.

3 have websites listed. That's where the current exhibition is announced — the one thing worth checking before you visit.

3 galleries list websites — that's where the current exhibition is announced, and it's the one thing worth checking before you visit.

The Leeuwarden gallery walk

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Sidewalk Gallery on 32a Voorstreek, VHDG on 6-8 Naauw, Galerie De Roos van Tudor on 45 Eewal, Peter van der Griend on 35 Nieuwestad, Galerie ArtBrut058 on 3 Boerhaavestraat, and De Garaazje on 17a Moundyk. That's 6 stops on the Leeuwarden gallery walk.

Gallery tips for Leeuwarden

How the regulars do Leeuwarden's galleries:

• Visit twice if it moves you at Sidewalk Gallery. A second visit to a strong show is never wasted. You see completely different work the second time.
• Note the curator's name at VHDG. Good curators have taste you can follow. If you loved the show, look up what else they've put together.
• Kids are welcome (usually). Most galleries are fine with children; the contemporary ones especially. Call ahead if you're unsure.
• Follow the galleries online. Openings and one-night events get announced on social media first. One follow catches them all.

Good to know

We searched about 25 km around Leeuwarden — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new art gallery in Leeuwarden can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 6 that's closed, or a great art gallery we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

We don't review exhibitions — shows change too fast. What we list is the where: real galleries, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 6 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.

Worth the trip: more art galleries around Leeuwarden

6 more within about 25 km of Leeuwarden, nearest first: