Zuiderzeemuseum

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The Zuiderzee Museum, named after the former Zuiderzee (now IJsselmeer ), is a museum in the North Holland Enkhuizen.

The museum, which was in 1984 awarded the European Museum of the Year, consists of two parts: the Buitenmuseum ( outdoor museum), so the open-air grounds, and the internal Museum (inside the museum), which is housed in warehouses from the 17th century.

The expansive outdoor area a typical Zuiderzeestädtchen has been built from between 1700 and 1900. The numerous buildings are not all from the environment around Enkhuizen, but were brought together from various places around the IJsselmeer. On display are numerous fishermen's houses and residential buildings, as well as a church, a windmill, a pharmacy, a school, numerous workshops and shops, a harbor and canals. On the basis of an Archimedean screw is demonstrated how the Dutch -drained soil.

The special feature of the museum is that - taking actors in the buildings of the role of the villagers - at least in the season. So you can craftsmen such as rope makers, blacksmiths, shoemakers wood, but also housewives look in their activities over the shoulder. The work in the bakery, the cheese and the smokehouse can be observed live.

In Binnenmuseum is, inter alia, a collection of old boats and tools of farmers and fishermen shown. A documentary deals with the whaling in the Zuiderzee region.

Visitors are taken from a parking lot outside the city with a ferry in the Museum (running time approx 15 minutes), which also applies to the Enkhuizener station.