A museum village set up to mimic the architecture and 'atmosphere' of villages around the former Zuiderzee with period houses, businesses, streets and canals.
A museum village set up to mimic the architecture and 'atmosphere' of villages around the former Zuiderzee with period houses, businesses, streets and canals.
Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen
1 hour by train
train Enkhuizen
directions_car 64.7 km
official website
www.zuiderzeemuseum.nl
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The Zuiderzee Museum with farms and homesteads demonstrates traditional Dutch living between the 16th and 18th centuries.
A large variety of buildings are on display in the outdoor museum: wind mill, lime kilns, fish-smoking house, steam laundry, drugstore, pharmacy, basketmaker, blacksmith, cheese warehouse, school, and hairdresser's, and more.
Most of the buildings are authentic—sometimes even transported in whole in a steel frame—while some, like the wharf and the house 'Siberie' from the island of Marken, are replicas of the original buildings.
The harbor is a replica of its layout on Marken before enlargement there.
The Zuiderzee Museum is located in the beautiful city of Enkhuizen in the province of Noord-Holland (North Holland). It's a well preserved town with visible fortifications and used to be one of the 6 Dutch East India Company cities in the Golden Age of the Netherlands.
Enkhuizen is called 'Haringstad' (Herring Town) and was an important fishing port for centuries until the Zuiderzee was closed off in 1932 by the construction of the Barrier Dam (Afsluitdijk).
Enkhuizen is about an hour by train from Amsterdam. The Zuiderzeemuseum is about a 10-minute walk from the Enkhuizen train station. From the railway station you can see the harbor, which, besides yachts, offers boats to other destinations and a ferry to the Zuiderzeemuseum.
