Hofwijck
The village of Voorburg on the Vliet canal from Delft to Leiden, about 3.25 miles (5.25 km) from Leeuwenhoek's house in the center of Delft.
Museum
Home of Constantijn Huygens and after his death, home of his son Christiaan. Leeuwenhoek could have walked there or taken the canal boat (trekschuit), which had regular service between Delft and both den Haag and Leiden. Hofwijck is now a museum.
In 2013, Studio La Meul rebuilt Hofwijck as a doll's house at a scale of 1:10 for an exhiition at the Museum Boerhaave in Leiden. One of the rooms is pictured below left (click to enlarge). The drawing on the right is by Moucheron, from around 1675, when Leeuwenhoek would have been visiting.
Hofwijck was designed by Huygens to be "a harmonious piece of paradise on earth, with a garden in God’s image and likeness."
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