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South Holland · Culture & daily life

SPAR-museum: grocery shopping gets a history

In a former SPAR shop in Leiderdorp, Will and Marianne van Gessel collected material relating to the grocer’s shop. The SPAR-museum lets you look at everyday shopping routines from another era.

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Weighing and paying

Scales and cash registers show which tools were part of shop work. Take time over the differences in operation and design. Such everyday objects give a concrete starting point for conversations about how people did their shopping.

The shop and the neighbourhood

Alongside an old sweet shop there are scale models of the Hoofdstraat and the Doeskwartier. These give the shop history a local setting. Panels about SPAR add the story of the retail organisation to the personal collection.

Get in touch first

This is a private collection. So do not assume there is free walk-in access at a fixed time. Various listings of visiting hours and visits by appointment are in circulation; current opening times have not been confirmed. Phone in advance to find out whether and when you are welcome.

Before you go

Phone 071-5895517 before you set off. A visit is only certain once confirmed.

Sources

Some of the information collected has not yet been confirmed by the museum.

This first edition has been compiled from collected museum information. Not all of the information has yet been confirmed by the museum. Viewing tips are by the editorial team. The sources used are listed below.

  1. SPAR-museum — source 1

    Source reference supplied; independent source check still needed. Research reference supplied; source content and claims still to be verified independently.

  2. SPAR-museum — source 3

    Source reference supplied; independent source check still needed. Research reference supplied; source content and claims still to be verified independently.

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