The De Pont foundation was created by a Tilburg businessman: Jan de Pont (1915-1987) who wished to promote contemporary art. The museum is in the old Thomas de Beer wool mill and is mainly lit by daylight. You can see works by R. Serra, M. Dumas, T. ..

Located in the Mommers & Co tectile factory, this "activity" museum gives an attractive overview of the textile industry in the Netherlands and especially the wool industry in Tilburg. The large steam engine (still working) dates from 1906...

This is main square of Tilburg from which the busy pedestrainised streets fan out. Like any recently expanded town, Tilburg has modern buildings ( stadsschouwburg , stadhuis ) which stand proudly around this square.

Built in 1961 by the architects Bijvoet and Holt, this building has a glass part alongside large windowless brick surfaces in overlapping planes with concave lines.

The town hall is a building with sober lines covered in black granite stuck on in 1971 to the neoGothic palace of King William II. He lived at Tilburg for a long time and died there in 1849.

The museum dedicated to the fauna and flora in the Noord-Brabant is next to the Scryption. The collections in the latter show various aspects of written communications: typewriters, calculators, desks, writing cases, pens and other office objects as ..