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Clever inventions, bright lights and bold ideas. Ten questions about the city of technology in the south of the Netherlands.
Bright spark 0–4 · Design lover 5–8 · Master of light 9–10
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Gerard Philips and his father Frederik started a small light bulb factory that grew into a worldwide electronics company. DAF also comes from Eindhoven, but it made trailers, trucks and cars.
Photo: Ceescamel, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.
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PSV stands for Philips Sport Vereniging: it started in 1913 as a club for Philips workers. In 1988 PSV won the European Cup. AZ plays in Alkmaar.
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Since 2006, artists have turned buildings, parks and the banks of the river into glowing artworks along a walking route of about 5 kilometres. It suits Eindhoven's nickname: the City of Light.
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The Evoluon looks like a UFO that has just landed. Its concrete dome is 77 metres wide. It started as a science museum, became a conference centre, and reopened as a museum in 2022.
Photo: Thea van den Heuvel, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Dutch Design Week started in 2002 and fills old factories, studios and schools across the city. Eindhoven is also home to the well-known Design Academy Eindhoven.
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Eindhoven was liberated on 18 September 1944. Ever since, the festival has started with a parade on that day, and streets are decorated with lights and fairy-tale scenes.
Photo: CodeCat, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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The museum opened in 1936, thanks to a local businessman who loved modern art. It has works by Picasso and Chagall and one of the largest collections in the world by the Russian artist El Lissitzky.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Eindhoven grew up where the Dommel meets a stream called the Gender. The Dommel starts in Belgium and flows on to Den Bosch.
Photo: edited by M.Minderhoud, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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The airport started in 1932 as a grass airfield. Today holiday flights take off from the same runway as military aircraft.
Photo: Henk Monster, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.
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The Variomatic worked the same in reverse. In the Dutch championship for driving backwards, DAFs were so fast that they had to race in a class of their own.
Photo: Stahlkocher, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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