Where will your curiosity take you?

Heerenveen · Friesland

Museum Belvédère: art and landscape in Oranjewoud

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Museum Belvédère focuses on modern and contemporary art. For your visit, use Oranjewoud as your destination: the museum information gives Oranje Nassaulaan 70 as the current address.

Horst · Limburg

Museum Bert Coppus: painting and graphic art

Museum Bert Coppus in Horst is described as an overview of paintings and graphic works by Bert Coppus. Landscapes and still lifes offer a recognisable way into different techniques and working methods.

Grou · Friesland

Museum Bescherming Bevolking: inside the command post

Museum Bescherming Bevolking (Dutch civil defence) in Grou presents a command post as Cold War heritage. The underground site makes it possible to look at an organisation not only through objects but also through its rooms.

Rijswijk · Zuid-Holland

Commandopost Rijswijk: renovation shapes the visit

Museum Bescherming Bevolking in Park Overvoorde covers civil defence and the Cold War. The command post in Rijswijk is closed for renovation; announced open days remain subject to confirmation.

Middenbeemster · Noord-Holland

At Betje Wolff, house and literature come together

The former home in Middenbeemster links the writer Betje Wolff with literature, regional history and temporary talks or exhibitions.

Best · Noord-Brabant

Bevrijdende Vleugels: equipment and stories

Museum Bevrijdende Vleugels in Best covers Operation Market Garden and the liberation through aircraft, vehicles, uniforms and dioramas. The large equipment offers a first glimpse, but the explanations provide the necessary context.

Utrecht · Utrecht

Museum Bleulandinum: anatomy as a study collection

The Anatomisch Museum Bleulandinum in Utrecht contains historical anatomical specimens and models. The museum in the Stratenum can be visited by appointment only.

Zutphen · Gelderland

Museum Boer Kip: painting at a farmstead

Museum Boer Kip in Zutphen focuses on the life and work of Herman Kip. The city farm with yard and barns forms the setting described for the visit.

Leiden · Zuid-Holland

Rijksmuseum Boerhaave: science through its instruments

Rijksmuseum Boerhaave in Leiden tells the history of science. Instruments and other objects show how people investigated questions and tried to make knowledge visible.

Rotterdam · Zuid-Holland

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: the museum building is closed

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is closed for renovation. Reopening is expected around 2030. For a current public visit, the museum refers you to Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen at Museumpark 24.

Leens · Groningen

Museum Borg Verhildersum: living on different scales

A manor house, a farmhouse and a labourer’s cottage offer different ways into the Verhildersum estate in Leens. The museum invites you to look at the buildings and their furnishings in relation to one another.

Den Haag · Zuid-Holland

Museum Bredius: art in a collector’s setting

Museum Bredius on Lange Vijverberg combines paintings and drawings with furniture, silver, crystal and porcelain. That combination invites you to look not only at individual works of art but also at the setting they share.

Oirschot · Noord-Brabant

Prinses Irene: museum visits by appointment or on Wednesdays

Museum Brigade en Garde Prinses Irene in Oirschot focuses on the brigade and the guards tradition of the fusiliers. The regimental collection is located at a barracks and therefore has different access arrangements from a stand-alone town museum.

Broek op Langedijk · Noord-Holland

Museum BroekerVeiling: sailing, auctioning and looking around

Museum BroekerVeiling in Broek op Langedijk centres on a historic sail-through vegetable auction (doorvaarveiling). A boat trip, an auction experience and exhibitions together make up an extensive visitor programme.

Arnhem · Gelderland

Museum Bronbeek: objects and voices from a colonial past

Museum Bronbeek in Arnhem addresses the colonial-military past surrounding the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia. The presentation combines objects with film and eyewitness accounts.

Waalwijk · Noord-Brabant

Museum Buitenlust: hand tools with signs of use

Museum Buitenlust in Waalwijk collects historical hand tools for woodworking. In a former cattle shed you can see how different crafts had their own implements.

Buren · Gelderland

Museum Buren & Oranje: a town and a royal house

Museum Buren & Oranje is housed in the Oude Raadhuis (Old Town Hall) of Buren. The collection links the town’s history with objects relating to the House of Orange.

Borne · Overijssel

Bussemakerhuis: the linen trade between home and weaving loft

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The Bussemakerhuis preserves a linen merchant’s house and still regularly puts six old handlooms to work in its weaving loft.

Boekelo · Overijssel

Museum Buurtspoorweg: a local railway that still runs

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Between Haaksbergen and Boekelo, historic steam and diesel trains run on a heritage line of about seven kilometres.

Haaksbergen · Overijssel

Museum Buurtspoorweg: a railway line as a museum

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At Museum Buurtspoorweg you do not just look: on running days you travel too. The line between Haaksbergen and Boekelo is the heart of this railway museum.

Utrecht · Utrecht

Catharijneconvent: Christian heritage in a convent setting

Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht collects Christian heritage. Art, manuscripts, textiles and objects for religious use offer different ways into the subject.

Cuijk · Noord-Brabant

Museum Ceuclum: regional history in the tower

Museum Ceuclum in Cuijk presents regional history in a church tower at Castellum 1. Archaeological finds, pictures and explanations make up what is on offer; a climb for the panoramic view is also mentioned.

Veendam · Groningen

Museum Collectie Ter Borg: farming before mechanisation

Museum Collectie Ter Borg in Veendam calls its subject Boeren in het Veen (‘Farmers in the Peat’). The museum’s own description names tools and old photographs as ways into farming in the Veenkoloniën (peat colonies) before mechanisation.

Winkel · Noord-Holland

Museum Collection ’39–’45: a private war collection

Museum guides describe Museum Collection ’39–’45 in Winkel as a private collection relating to the Second World War.