Stichting Museum Joure - 4 Things to Know Before Visiting

Lake Sneek is a Dutch lake in the province of Friesland. The lake was born in the Middle Ages from the extraction of peat . Today, it constitutes a place dedicated mainly to nautical activities and has several marinas .

This is an amusement park that is completely dedicated to the book series De Kameleon by Hotze de Roos , and is located in the Frisian town of Terhorne. You can enjoy the chameleon farm, the cruise and the adventure island again. The 'Grande Tour' consists of searching the farm, a round trip in which everything is told by a guide and an adventure on the Chameleon Island. Nice working together, getting dirty and getting acquainted with the 4 elements.

Museum Heerenveen ,is a cultural history museum in the center of Heerenveen . The museum tells the history of the area through archaeological finds, historical objects and a collection of works by significant artists of the area such as Jan Mankes .

The Tjeukemeer is the largest inland waterway of the Dutch province of Friesland . It is located in the Zuidwesthoek in the municipality of De Friese Meren , on the border of the former municipalities of Lemsterland and Skarsterlân .It used to be just a shallow lake with no special tourist attractions. In 1957 several provinces began to cooperate under the name of Marrekrite with the aim of developing the area for tourism. Shoals were eliminated, and in 2000 two artificial islands were created.

De Deelen is a vast complex of peat bogs in the lower middle of the Dutch province of Friesland , in the municipalities of Heerenveen and De Friese Meren. The Deelen consists of reed beds , draft holes with a relatively large amount of open water, thickets and grasslands. The lower middle of Friesland largely consisted of low peat swamps, which stretched south to the swamps of Northwest Overijssel.

The Museum Belvédère is a museum for modern and contemporary art in Heerenveen , province of Friesland. The collection mainly consists of works by Frisian artists and kindred spirits that are rarely shown in other public collections. These are artists such as Jan Mankes , Thijs Rinsema , Tames Oud , Gerrit Benner , Boele Bregman , Willem van Althuis and Sjoerd de Vries . The styles realism , impressionism , expressionism , constructivism and new figuration are represented in the museum.