PGDay Lowlands2025

Public Transport

The rooms we'll be using are the "Haaienzaal" (shark room), and the EAUditorium (Blijdorplaan 8, 3041 JG Rotterdam). The venue is within 15 minutes walk from Rotterdam Centraal Station (main train station in the city), but if you don't feel like walking, there are buses and trams as alternatives.

Information can be obtained by using the RET or 9292 websites. Both have excellent apps in the iOS and Google Play store. Other apps (like Google Maps) have great integration as well.

By Taxi or by bike

If you don't feel like walking or taking the public transport, there are more alternatives.

• If taxis are your thing, you can check the official information provided by the city of Rotterdam.
• If you want to move like many local people, and you can, consider renting a bike.

Things to do in Rotterdam

Rotterdam has a lot to offer in terms of museums, restaurants and nightlife. An unordered list of recommendations is below.

Museums

• Kunsthal Rotterdam The Kunsthal Rotterdam is one of the leading cultural institutions in the Netherlands, offering over twenty exhibitions a year. You'll find other worthwhile museums at the Museumpark as well, like the natural history museum (https://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/en/), or: the dead serious musem. Westzeedijk 341 3015 AA Rotterdam
• Wereldmuseum Rotterdam As a major port city, Rotterdam played an important role in the infrastructure of imperial and global movements of people, objects, and ideas. This identity is reflected at the Wereldmuseum Rotterdam through exhibitions and programming about the many people, histories, and cultures that shape and create the world. Willemskade 25 3016 DM Rotterdam
• Dutch photography museum The National Museum of Photography welcomes you to the fascinating world of visual stories and timeless images. Wilhelminakade 332 Wilhelminapier, Rotterdam
• Kijk-kubus museum-house The cube-houses in Rotterdam are a phenomenon, fun to get in once. And while you're at Blaak, consider visiting the iconic library (https://www.bibliotheek.rotterdam.nl/), and the Markthal (https://markthal.nl/en/), where you can taste the diversity of the world city of Rotterdam. Overblaak 70 3011 MH, Rotterdam

Nightlife

Stay tuned for information on "pgkaraoke" to be published. Other evening actities include:

• Maassilo / Now & Wow A 100 year old grain silo transformed into an event location. Host to the most iconic dance parties since 2007 (as one of your organizers fondly remembers). Maashaven Zuidzijde 1 - 2 3081 AE Rotterdam
• Witte de Withstraat The Witte de Withstraat is host to a number of cafes (Witte Aap, NRC, Bierboutique), restaurants (Bazar), art galleries (MaMA, Gallerie Rotterdam), and shops. Well worth a stroll.
• Rotown / Nieuwe Binnenweg Poppodium & Café Rotown is the place to visit for the music-minded. There are more places in the area that are perfect for a relaxed drink. Nieuwe Binnenweg 19 3014 GB Rotterdam

Rotterdam is the birthplace of the dish "Kapsalon", which you should consider consuming in case the Wikipedia page doesn't absolutely repel you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapsalon