At the Burghse Schoole, a museum visit begins in the classroom

Museum de Burghse Schoole occupies a former school building from the mid-nineteenth century. It opened as a museum in 1992 and has three exhibition rooms: a classroom furnished as it was in 1920, a room for temporary exhibitions and one devoted to the Carolingian ringwork fortification.

According to the museum, the old classroom contains a slate, a slate pencil, an ink cloth, a reading board and school wall charts, among other objects. They suggest what a child’s learning environment looked like about a century ago. A herb garden also stands beside the schoolyard.

The room devoted to the ringwork fortification tells another part of the village’s story. According to the museum, its building stands at the edge of the former moat around the ring. The site thus brings together school history and the older history of Burgh-Haamstede.

The temporary exhibition Alle hens aan dek – de redders van Burghsluis (All Hands on Deck: the Rescuers of Burghsluis) can be seen until Saturday 24 October 2026. That is also the final Saturday of the announced season. Visitors planning a trip later in the year should take the seasonal closure into account.

Museum de Burghse Schoole is at Kerkstraat 3 in Burgh-Haamstede. In September and October, through 24 October, it opens on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 1 pm to 4 pm.

Admission costs €4.25 for adults and children aged thirteen and over, and €2.75 for children aged six to twelve. Children under six enter free.