20 Attractions to Explore Near Rijksmuseum Twenthe

The Museum Factory is a museum in Enschede that was called TwentseWelle before May 2018. The Museum Factory is a family museum where the future is discovered through learning, playing, working, thinking, experimenting and dreaming. The exhibitions inspire young and old to learn and to invent, try and assemble things themselves. That can be done in the factory. The historical collections of the museum are always the great source of inspiration.

The Volkspark is a park in Enschede from 1872 . It is the oldest Volkspark in the Netherlands, founded after the English example. A bequest from Hendrik Jan van Heek made it possible to furnish the park on the former Goolkate estate . The largest part was designed in English landscape style by Dirk Wattez, designer of many gardens in Twente . Characteristic of Wattez's work are the strongly meandering serpentine ponds. His son Pieter restored much of his work and also used sight axes.

The Lonnekerberg is an elevation in the municipality of Enschede in the Dutch province of Overijssel . The hill, with a height of sixty meters above NAP , is located northeast of the Twente village of Lonneker and east of the former Twenthe airport. Its nature reserve covers 141 hectares and is owned by Landscape Overijssel . Production forest with different types of coniferous wood that was planted in the time of Bledenstein and afterwards is gradually being transformed into mixed forest .

Landgoed Lonnekermeer is an estate located between Enschede , Hengelo and Oldenzaal around two lakes . These lakes have been dug for sand holes for the construction of the Twente railway lines .The Lonnekermeer is part of a historic chain of 19th-century estates around Enschede and Oldenzaal.

De Waarbeek is an amusement park of 3.4 hectares , located near the Twente city ​​of Hengelo .The park is mainly aimed at families with children between the ages of three and twelve. There are forty-four rides that are mostly old-fashioned in character, such as the Hully Gully . The main attraction of the park is the Toboggan Track : a roller coaster that is considered to be one of the oldest working steel roller coasters in the world.

The Rutbeek is a Dutch recreation area, located in East Overijssel in the municipality of Enschede. Around a large pond with an irregular shape and an area of ​​40 hectares is a recreation area with an area of ​​120 hectares. The water depth of the lake is on average three, and a maximum of five meters. The distance of a walk around the water is four to five kilometers. The Rutbeek consists of a swamp and five different beaches.

The Museum Buurtspoorweg operates a museum railway between Haaksbergen and Boekelo in Overijssel . The foundation was established on February 21, 1967 and on June 23, 1989, it was the first railway company besides the Nederlandse Spoorwegen to obtain a transport concession for the Haaksbergen – Boekelo section.

Museum Hengelo is a museum and knowledge center for the local history of Hengelo . The museum tells personal stories of residents of Hengelo who have fallen into oblivion and shows the urban development over the years. The museum was founded in 1973 and is located in a former shop annex residence that was converted into a mansion around 1880. It is one of the few nineteenth-century buildings in the city with original fireplaces, stained glass windows and plastered ceilings.

This is a interactive Technology Museum, which is about what technology means in life. In the old factory of the Hazemeijer it is all about steam engines and smartphones, robots and art and energy sources and the planet. In short, everything about people and technology.

The Hulsbeek is a Dutch recreation area , located west of Oldenzaal . Originally it was an estate situated around Erve Het Hulsbeek. The area, with a total area of ​​230 ha, consists on the one hand of the landscaped recreational lakes and meadows with a skateboard track and on the other hand of the original forest and heathland.

Boerskotten is a nature reserve of approximately 133 hectares. Boerskotten was purchased in 1984 by the Natuurmonumenten association . During the construction of the A1, objections arose from nature and environmental organizations, because this highway was built right through the nature reserve. Both parts are connected by means of wildlife tunnels and an ecoduct . There are also connections with adjacent nature reserves such as De Snippert and the Duivelshof.

The Buurserzand is a nature reserve near Haaksbergen in Overijssel. The largest part of the Buurserzand consists of dry heathland on old drifting sand with scrub heather and gorse. It is managed by the Vereniging Natuurmonumenten and consists largely of forest and heath. There are a few orchid meadows on wet grasslands with, among other things, spotted orchid and bell gentian.

Arboretum Poort Bulten is an arboretum near the village of De Lutte in Twente . The arboretum has an area of ​​19 ha , of which approximately 10 ha is occupied by a forest strip and a pool landscape. The park also houses a large collection of boulders found on the route of the nearby A1 motorway. More than 1000 different types of trees and shrubs grow in the Poort Bulten arboretum.

The Tankenberg is a mountain in the Dutch municipality of Oldenzaal . It is 81.8 meters high, making it the highest mountain in the province of Overijssel . It is part of an ice margin. There has been a chapel on the mountain since 1955. The Tankenberg can be climbed by bike from several sides. The Siemertweg is the longest and steepest ascent.

Landgoed Egheria is a Dutch nature reserve near the Twente village of De Lutte in the Overijssel municipality of Losser . It is part of the Oldenzaal Estates Natura 2000 area . The total estate is approximately 245 ha, of which approximately 162 ha is managed by Natuurmonumenten . The rest of the estate is owned by several private owners.

Museum No Hero is a museum for visual art in Delden. The museum is located in the former steward's house on the Twickel estate . The house dates from 1726. In 1867 the first major renovation of the building took place. From 2015 to 2018, the building was made suitable as a museum. The museum has a spacious garden where works of art are also displayed. The museum has a permanent collection with works by Karel Appel , Rainer Fetting and Frank Stella , among others .

The Noordmolen is a watermill in the Dutch municipality of Hof van Twente . It is located in the northeast of the hamlet of Deldeneresch . It used to be a double water mill, now only the oil mill remains , intended for pressing oil from rapeseed and linseed . The Noordmolen has traditionally been part of the Twickel estate .

The Haaksbergerveen is a sub-area in the Buurserzand & Haaksbergerveen . It is a high moor-like nature reserve of approximately 500 hectares in the border area of ​​the Dutch province of Overijssel and Germany. It is located south of Enschede in the east of the municipality of Haaksbergen. The Haaksbergerveen largely consists of a partly excavated raised moor area.

The Dinkel is a small river in the border area of ​​the Netherlands and Germany . It starts in North Rhine-Westphalia between Coesfeld and Ahaus . At Losser in Twente it enters the Netherlands , flows along the Lutterzand and leaves the Netherlands again near Ootmarsum, to flow at Neuenhaus into the Vechte which enters the Netherlands at De Haandrik and from there the ' Overijsselse Vecht ' is called.

The Lutterzand is a nature reserve and recreation area in the municipality of Losser in Overijssel. The mixed forest area of ​​the estate shows a varied vegetation of old and young blowing pines next to fields with heather and juniper bushes on old sand drifts. The area has traditionally been attractive for day trips and is accessible to visitors by the Lutterzandweg.