20 Attractions to Explore Near Museum Orvelte

The Museum of Paper Cutting is a museum on the village green of Westerbork . It was founded in Muntendam in the 1950s by cutting artist Wiecher Lever and moved to Westerbork in 1965.The museum has a permanent set-up and also changing exhibitions with paper cutting art from the Netherlands and abroad. Every year there is an exhibition with a special theme, such as File 2009 or Summer 2015.

Ellert en Brammert is an open-air museum in Schoonoord expositing the way people lived in Drenthe at the time of the peat digging. It was named after a myth about the two giants Ellert and Brammert who prowled around the Ellertsveld. It is an iconic attraction in this area and it attracts a lot of tourists to here.

Sleenerzand is a more than 1600 ha large forest area in the province of Drenthe, located between Noord-Sleen and Schoonoord . The forests were planted in the 1930s . Many traces from the distant past can still be found, in the northern part glacial pits and in the southern part burial mounds .The recreational lake Kibbelkoele is located in the area . The Bosbad Noord-Sleen outdoor swimming pool is also located in the Sleenerzand and there is a 30 km long mountain bike route.

The Mantingerveld is a nature reserve north of Nieuw-Balinge in the Dutch municipality of Midden-Drenthe. In 1992, Natuurmonumenten started the so-called Action Goudplevier, which aimed to turn a number of small fragmented forests, heath and peat areas into one large nature reserve again by buying intermediate agricultural land and converting it back into heathland. The Mantingerveld is the result of this successfully completed campaign.

This is a reclamation forest on old heathlands. You will find larch and spruce, heather and fens. In this area you can enjoy cycling and walking. However, the forest is best known for the former Camp Westerbork, from which many Jews were deported during the Second World War

De Boswachterij Gees is a 1600 ha nature reserve northwest of Gees in the province of Drenthe .The area is best known for the pingo ruin Mekelermeer and the heath on the cover sand ridge with the name Hooge Stoep. This name refers to its high location in relation to the surrounding land. Sometimes the forest as a whole is also indicated by it. The area is connected with the Mantingerveld and further on the Dwingelderveld.

The C+B Museum is a museum about the former blues band Cuby + Blizzards . It is located in Grolloo , Drenthe .The museum was opened on June 1, 2011 in the farm on the Voorstreek where lead singer Harry Muskee , aka 'Cuby', lived from 1965 to 1971. Muskee himself witnessed the opening of the museum; a few months later he died of cancer . In the fifth year of his death, lines of text from the songs Appleknockers flophouse and Window of my eyes were applied to the Voorstreek in Grolloo.

Memorial Center Kamp Westerbork is a museum where the history of Camp Westerbork is told.The museum is located on the Oosthalen road , about three kilometers from the former camp site. Due to radio telescopes , no motorized traffic and buildings are allowed at the former camp site. A shuttle bus runs between the visitor center and the camp site and an educational walking route has been installed between the sites.

De Klencke is a manor near the place Oosterhesselen in the Dutch municipality of Coevorden . In addition to the manor, the estate includes five farms with approximately 200 hectares of land. In 1961, the then owner, Mrs. EJ Goddard- van der Wyck, bequeathed the estate to the Vereniging Natuurmonumenten . The manor house and the accompanying building house were restored in 1976.

Dolmen D27 is located on the northeast side of Borger in the Dutch province of Drenthe . The passage grave is the largest dolmen in the Netherlands. Close to this hunebed is the dolmen center, designed by Aldo van Eyck and completed in 2005. The hunebed D27 contains nine capstones on 26 supporting stones and two keystones and a complete gate with four gate stones and a capstone. Two nearby boulders may have been crown stones.

The Hunebedcentrum in Borger on the Drentse Hondsrug puts you on the trail to prehistoric times. To the time when the first farmers settled in Drenthe. These farmers built the impressive stone funerary monuments, the remains of which can still be admired in the Drenthe landscape. There are still 54 and the largest is right next to the center.

The Gasselterveld is a recreation area in the middle of the Hondsrug in Drenthe. You will find the swimming pond 't Nije Hemelriek and the swimming lake the Gasselterveld. Improbably blue water, forest views and a dazzling white beach. A wonderful place where you can swim and sunbathe!

Dolmen D25 is one of the five dolmens located near Bronneger in the Dutch province of Drenthe . The hunebed D25, together with D23 and D24 , forms a somewhat separate and more forested group of dolmens on the Steenakkersweg, a sandy road to Bronneger. The dolmens D22 and D21 are located a little more to the west on the edge of a field. In the vicinity of these dolmens are two burial mounds from the Bronze Age .

Diependal is a wetland nature reserve in Central Drenthe . It is managed by the Drenthe Landscape . The area borders the Hijkerveld near the village of Oranje . Not far from Diependal is the Fochteloërveen . Diependal is 1000 hectares in size. There is a bird hide in Diependal . The red-necked grebe can sometimes be seen from this hut. There is a long tunnel of 160 meters long, at the end of which is the hut. There is a booklet available in which observations can be noted.

The TT Circuit Assen is a motorsport race track built in 1955 and located in Assen, Netherlands. It is popularly referred to as "The Cathedral" of motorcycling by the fans of the sport. The venue has the distinction of holding the most Grand Prix motorcycle races every year except 2020) since the series was created in 1949. It has a capacity of 110,000 spectators, including 60,000 seats. Since 1992, the circuit has also been part of the World SBK calendar except the 2020 season.

't Nije Hemelriek is a recreational lake near Gasselte in the Gieten-Borger forestry in the Dutch municipality of Aa en Hunz. Just west of the recreational lake is a large sand extraction area with a deep pond. Coarse sand was extracted for construction in the sand extraction area. On the north side of this lake is a large recreational beach.

Drouwenerzand is an amusement and holiday park in Drouwen in the Drenthe municipality of Borger-Odoorn . Nearby is the nature reserve Drouwenerzand. In 1956 the local baker Hendrik Buntjer started a tearoom , a playground was also built to entertain the children. In the years that followed, this expanded into a holiday park with a playground.

Dolmen D18 is located in the vicinity of Rolde in the Dutch province of Drenthe.The dolmen is located northeast of Rolde in the vicinity of the cemetery and the Sint-Jacobskerk. In the immediate vicinity is a second dolmen; D17. The dolmen has been 'restored' by Joan Lodewijk Gerhard Gregory and looks 'neater', dolmen D17 is more of a ruin.

Wildlands is a zoo and adventure theme park with four main areas: Jungola, Serenga, Nortica and Animazia, located in Emmen, the Netherlands. Jungola is jungle-themed and displays butterflies, tropical birds, large reptiles, ring-tailed lemurs, lar gibbons, small-clawed otters and Asian elephants. The most prominent feature of Jungola is the indoor tropical rainforest hall Rimbula, which at 18,000 m2 is the largest zoo jungle hall in the world and the largest greenhouse in Europe.

Wildlands, dierentuin is a zoo in Emmen, the Netherlands.Jungola is jungle-themed and displays butterflies, tropical birds, large reptiles (such as Chinese alligators and pythons), ring-tailed lemurs, lar gibbons, small-clawed otters and Asian elephants. The most prominent feature of Jungola is the indoor tropical rainforest hall Rimbula, which at 18,000 m2.