Experience Holland in just one day! In a beautiful, wooded park on the outskirts of Arnhem lies a very special museum. A museum which brings you back in time to discover how ordinary Dutch people have lived over the last few hundred years. Fantastic and exciting activities await you in Winter at the Openluchtmuseum in Arnhem from December 5th to January 17th.
The museum will be open daily from 11.00 until 19.00 (closed at 17.00 on Dec. 24th & 31st / closed all day Dec. 25th & Jan. 1st). Activities include: Ice rink with skates free, and a sledging hill. Historical merry-go-round. Children's farm - and possibilities of baking your own bread. Children's lantern parade at the end of the day.
Hot chocolate, soup or mulled wine will be served for those who need to be kept warm. The museum restaurants serve tasty pancakes until 19.00 hours. At the Zaanse Plein there will be a cozy tented winter crafts market every weekend. Moreover, enjoy your "holidays in Zeeland" with church music and singing. For details of the daily programme kindly see the website here and take the virtual tour. After the Christmas holidays, for the rest of the winter, the Openluchtmuseum is open as a park for a winter walk in a picturesque setting from 11.00 to 16.30.
Did you know that there is a new building among the farmhouses? A new setting featuring a Frisian farmhouse where bags are packed. The family is in fact emigrating to Canada. A new life in a land of unlimited opportunities? The Director of the Museum, Pieter-Matthijs Gijsbers, on an interview in the local magazine "Uit in Arnhem" said that in the years to come the Open Air Museum will shed light on "Migration". Currently, this year, the focus is on Emigration whilst in the year 2010 Immigration will be discussed and displayed at the museum. In 2011 the investigation will be on the relations between the old and the new Dutch people. Finally in 2012, on the 100th anniversary of the Open Air Museum, we will see the results of the past years and look at the past 100 years of the museum.
Sources: Openlucthmuseum Brochure and Uit in Arnhem magazine
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