Museum van Papierknipkunst - 4 Things to Know Before Visiting

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About Museum van Papierknipkunst

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.

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Museum Orvelte

Museum Orvelte

3.49km from Museum van Papierknipkunst

A beautiful open air museum located in the heart of Drenthe. In the lively monument village of Orvelte - where people simply live and work - you can experience history firsthand. Join us on a journey and experience Orvelte yourself!There are beautiful thatched Saxon farmhouses and other rustic buildings. Nice to walk along, but even more fun to look inside. You are most welcome at some of these farms!

Mantingerveld

Mantingerveld

7.8km from Museum van Papierknipkunst

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.

Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork

Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork

8.25km from Museum van Papierknipkunst

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.

Boswachterij Grolloo

Boswachterij Grolloo

8.7km from Museum van Papierknipkunst

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

Ellert en Brammert

Ellert en Brammert

9.63km from Museum van Papierknipkunst

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.

C + B Museum Grolloo

C + B Museum Grolloo

10.39km from Museum van Papierknipkunst

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.

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Drenthe

Drenthe

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Drenthe is a province of the Netherlands located in the northeastern part of the country. The oldest remains of settlements in Holland were found in this province: the mysterious hune beds. But Drenthe also boasts varied natural landscapes: peat swamps, heathlands, and sand drifts. In short, Drenthe is well worth a visit.

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