The Teylers Museum is the oldest museum in the Netherlands.

Located in Haarlem , it is housed in the building where Peter Teyler van der Hulst lived, a wealthy cloth merchant who left his possessions for the foundation of the museum itself, whose original core is the Oval Room.

The museum houses different types of artifacts such as books, scientific instruments, drawings, fossils and minerals . The example that guided the founders in creating the Teylers Museum was the Mouseion of classical antiquity: a “temple for the muses of the arts and sciences” which would also be a meeting place for scholars and host various collections.