35 Museums to Explore in Friesland

Museum De Grutterswinkel is a museum in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden. The grocery store is located in a five - bay building from 1596. The facade has a checkered cornice and the central window is decorated with Rococo carvings . The building is a national monument . It was a mayor's residence and housed a coppersmith . In 1901 , the Feenstra family started out as a wholesaler in groats and colonial goods . Later it became a shop.

Museum Dokkum is a regional museum in the city of Dokkum in the Dutch province of Friesland. One of the buildings of the Dokkum museum is the Admiralty House from 1618. It is a national monument . The Admiralty of Friesland was located here until 1645 . The building has been part of the museum since 1963.

Museum Drachten, is a museum for modern and contemporary art located in the center of Drachten , on Museumplein. Its collection include Dada , De Stijl , Constructivism and Expressionism . They largely represent the period 1885-1965 with an extension to contemporary art. The core collection includes works of art by Theo van Doesburg , Kurt Schwitters , Thijs Rinsema , HN Werkman , Ids Wiersma, Sierd Geertsma, Pier Pander and so more.

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 Museum Hindeloopen is a cultural history museum in the Dutch town of Hindeloopen , one of the Frisian eleven cities. The collection of the Museum includes Hindelooper painting , traditional costumes and interiors . Also on display are objects related to shipping history and fishing . In addition, attention is paid to the history of the city.

The Natuurmuseum Fryslân is a nature museum in the city of Leeuwarden in the Dutch province of Friesland. The exhibit that has attracted the most visitors in the museum's history is the Animal Inside Out exhibit , produced by Gunther von Hagens . More than 62,000 visitors came to the museum to view the many plastinated animals. Four floors full of information, remarkable animals and plants, exercises, games and other surprises invite you to discover the beauty of nature in Fryslân.

Observeum is a unique combination of a regional museum and public observatory . Observeum is located in the village of Bergum in the Dutch province of Friesland . Visitors have access to the regional museum and the observatory.

A beautiful open air museum in Nij Beets , Friesland.The museum aims to show the visitor what the activities were during the peat extraction and, in particular, the conditions in which the peat diggers lived and worked during that period, 1863-1920. Various buildings have been (re)built on the two-hectare museum site and the Tjasker Nij Beets is also located on this site.

The Kazemattenmuseum is a war museum in Kornwerderzand in the Dutch province of Friesland. It consists of a visitor center, a number of casemates (command casemate, kitchen/anti-aircraft depot casemate, machine-gun casemate, cannon casemate and searchlight casemate) and a guardroom. Three monuments have been erected in commemoration: for the fallen in the Wonsstelling, for those on board the gunboat and for Captain Christiaan Boers and Deputy Commander Lieutenant Ham.

Pier Pander Museum is a museum in Leeuwarden for the artistic legacy of the Frisian sculptor Pier Pander (1864-1919). The creation of the Pier Pander Museum Leeuwarden in 1954 is on Nicolaas Petrus de Koo to thank.

Schelpenmuseum Paal 14 is a shell museum on the Wadden Island of Schiermonnikoog in the Dutch province of Friesland. In addition to a number of general information about molluscs, the museum also contains many beautiful shells. You will find all species that can be found on Schiermonnikoog, as well as more than 1,500 species from countries all over the world.

Museum Joure is a museum in Joure in the Dutch province of Friesland . The museum presents itself as a 'museum of making' and shows four clusters of collections: Douwe Egberts / coffee and tea, Frisian clocks, printing and metal. The museum is supported by the Friends of Museum Joure association.

Museum Tromp's Huys is a museum in Oost-Vlieland on the Wadden Island of Vlieland in the Dutch province of Friesland. The museum is housed in a national monument . The collection includes the Art by Betzy Akersloot-Berg, Silver, photo and clock collection, Nautical Charts and Ship Models ,Information about the history of the island, such as the disappeared village of West-Vlieland , the whaling industry and the ship Lutine .

The Titus Brandsma Museum is a museum in the Frisian city of Bolsward that is dedicated to Titus Brandsma , who was born near the city. Exhibitions are about the life of and the memory of this Frisian Carmelite and professor of philosophy and mysticism who died in Dachau during the Second World War. The permanent collection includes some of Brandsma's personal belongings and writings, including an overcoat.

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.