14 Museums to Explore in Zeeland

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Zeeland is the westernmost and least populous province of the Netherlands. It consists of a number of islands and peninsulas. Tourism plays a major role in the province’s economy as the local beaches become tourist hotspots in the summer. German tourists, in particular, flock to Zeeland to enjoy its beautiful weather and stunning beaches.

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Museums to Explore in Zeeland

Bizarium is a museum located in Sluis , in the province of Zeeland . The museum is located in a historic building. The collection consists of bizarre inventions that never caught on. Most of the items in the collection are reconstructions based on old drawings and patents, in addition to some original pieces. The museum was founded by the designer duo Marc De Jonghe and Ann Geerinck.

The Brouws Museum is a historical maritime museum in the city of Brouwershaven The collection includes: ship models, models of naval guns, maritime paintings, topographical maps, passport maps , navigation instruments, prints, maritime home crafts and some gold trade coins found in 2000 in Brouwershaven. The museum is located in two historic buildings with the address Haven-Zuidzijde 15. It also has three exhibition rooms, a library, cinema, museum shop and museum garden.

Bunkermuseum Zoutelande

Bunker Museum Zoutelande is a museum in a bunker complex in the Zeeland town of Zoutelande. The complex was part of the Atlantic Wall. Two bunkers of the Stützpunkt Lohengrin complex are open. The distance between the bunkers is about 200 meters. The walls and roof are made of concrete with a thickness of 2 meters. The other bunker complex in Zoutelande was named after another opera by Richard Wagner: Stützpunkt Meistersinger.

Flood Museum in Ouwerkerk, Netherlands is the "National Knowledge and Remembrance Centre for the Floods of 1953" and offers an in-depth picture of the events during and after the flood of 1 February 1953. The museum was officially opened on 2 April 2001. The museum also educates visitors about water safety, and the museum collects global knowledge about flooding.

Gemeentelijk Archeologisch Museum Aardenburg

This is an archaeological museum, located in the Zeeland town of Aardenburg in the municipality of Sluis , Zeelandic Flanders. The museum contains many objects from the Roman era and the Middle Ages , especially pottery such as rubbing dishes, drinking cups, piggy banks and large fireboxes, but also bone and metal utensils and bronze and terracotta gods figurines. In the garden behind the museum are the foundations of a Gallo-Roman temple.

Historical Museum Bevelanden

Historical Museum Bevelanden is a majestic museum focusing on the history of North and South Beveland. The museum has permanent exhibitions about the militia , reclamation and flooding, samplers , Beveland traditional costume , the orphanage, the city of Goes and famous Bevelanders. There is also a changing exhibition. The museum is located in a former monastery, which also served as an orphanage for a long time.

Marie Tak van Poortvliet Museum Domburg

The Marie Tak van Poortvliet Museum in the Zeeland city of Domburg is a museum for visual arts . The museum organizes exhibitions two or three times a year and has a sculpture garden and a modest collection of its own that is not on permanent display. The museum is housed in a replica designed by Cees Dam in 1994 of the original exhibition room, which Marie Tak van Poortvliet had built and which housed a large number of artists.

museum Goemanszorg

The Museum Goemanszorg is a museum in Dreister in a restored 18th century farmhouse. In the museum you can see a fully furnished farmhouse from around 1900 with a dignified, authentic cellar, a bestée , a kitchen and an opkaemer. A beautiful garden has been created around the museum with old agricultural crops, kruujen and 'oogstamfruit trees. The large barn is full of work for the cultivation of flax and madder.

Museum Veere is a historical museum with visual art, regional costume and interior related to the history of the city of Veere in Zeeland , the Netherlands. It includes a Scottish Attic, exhibitions of regional costumes and changing exhibitions by and about the international Veerse artist colony and/or Zeeland and Walcheren-related visual artists from the past and present, such as the Veerse Joffers .

Stadhuismuseum Zierikzee

The Zierikzee Town Hall Museum is a regional museum in Schouwen-Duiveland , in the Dutch province of Zeeland , that tells the story of the city of Zierikzee and of the municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland. The museum is located in the old, 16th-century town hall of Zierikzee on the Meelstraat, right in the center of the old port city. Via the town hall museum you can also visit 's Gravensteen , the old town prison of Zierikzee.

Terra Maris is a museum for nature and landscape of Zeeland , located in the village of Oostkapelle. The museum is located on the Manteling van Walcheren , only 750 meters from the beach. The museum is the successor of the Zeeuws Biologisch Museum, which was acquired by Het Zeeuwse Landschap in 2004. The museum includes a landscape garden of 2.5 hectares, in which different landscape types are presented. There is a museum café and a museum shop.

Visserijmuseum Breskens

Les Pêcheries - Museum of Fécamp is a new museum that brings together all the municipal collections of the city of Fécamp . Open since December 2017, it is located on the port of Fécamp, in an old fish factory formerly belonging to a company called: "Les Pêcheries de Fécamp". It brings together the collections that were in the Terre-Neuvas and Fisheries Museum and in the Museum of Arts and Children.

Zeeland maritime muZEEum

The Zeeuws Maritime MuZEEum is a maritime museum in the center of Vlissingen, situated on the marina of the city. It is housed in a building complex with buildings from the 16th, 17th, 18th and 21st century.The museum's permanent collection consists of the city's historical artifacts and objects showing the maritime history of Zeeland. Inside, the sub-collections and study collections are classified according to the Museum Inventarisatie Project.

The Zeeuws Museum is a museum in Middelburg about the province of Zeeland . The Zeeuws Museum has been located on the Abdijplein in the Middelburg Abbey since 1972. The collection includes the Zeeland tapestries , the historical collection of the Royal Zeeland Society of Sciences , porcelain from the Bal collection , Zeeland fashion and regional dress and the contemporary art collection of the Province of Zeeland.

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