Dark Sky Park De Boschplaat - 4 Things to Know Before Visiting

The Wrakkenmuseum is a cultural -historical museum in Formerum on the Wadden island of Terschelling in the Dutch province of Friesland .The museum is located in a monumental farm from 1859. It exhibits objects that have been brought to the surface by divers and come from shipwrecks or obtained by beachcombing.

De Boschplaat is a nature reserve on the east side of the Dutch Wadden island of Terschelling . It measures approximately 10 by 5 kilometers and has been managed by Staatsbosbeheer since 1910 . The area has been awarded the European Diploma in Nature Management since 1970. The adjacent beach at the Boschplaat is really beautiful. We personally think this is the most beautiful piece of sandy beach on Terschelling. The beach is very wide and during our walk we hardly encountered any other people.

The drowning house is a monument located in the southwest of the Vliehors on the Wadden Island of Vlieland and furnished as a small beachcombers museum. The cottage dates from 1890 and was built here as a shelter for castaways . If a ship was wrecked in a storm, they could reach the striking white-painted cottage where blankets, simple foodstuffs and water were stored. There was also a telephone connection with a post house more than eight kilometers away.

Bunker Museum Terschelling is a museum about the Second World War on the Dutch island of Terschelling . The museum is part of the Terschelling Bunker Preservation Foundation. The complex of seven acres consists out of approximately a hundred bunkers, of which four of them function as a museum at this moment. In these bunkers it is shown how they were used during the Second World War. Of the eighty-five bunkers still present, four have been designated as museum bunkers.

West-Terschelling is the largest village on Terschelling in the province Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 2,602 in January 2017.The skyline of the village is dominated by the Brandaris lighthouse, the village had also been named Sint Brandariusparochie, Sint-Brandariuskerke and just Brandaris in earlier centuries.

Museum 't Behoudt Huys is just like Terschelling: unique, quirky and surprisingly versatile! Step into the island's farm life or experience in Willem Barentsz' hut how this explorer lived on wintery Nova Zembla. The museum consists of several 17th-century buildings which were once the houses of wealthy whaling commanders.The buildings were constructed in 1688. The museum was established in 1938, and acquired these buildings in 1950. During World War II the collection had to be hidden.