32 Museums to Explore in South Holland

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South Holland

South Holland is a province of the Netherlands with a population of over 3.7 million. Its capital city is The Hague, but its largest city is Rotterdam. Not only is the province a popular tourist destination, but it also happens to be one of the most densely populated and industrialized areas of the world.

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Museums to Explore in South Holland

Archeon Museum Park

Museumpark Archeon is an open -air museum and educational experience park in Alphen aan den Rijn in South Holland that shows life in the Netherlands during prehistory , Roman times and the Middle Ages . It uses archaeological reconstructions, reenacting daily activities in which visitors can participate and exhibiting original historical objects. The park was granted museum status in 2015 .

Chabot Museum

The Chabot Museum is a museum dedicated to the Dutch painter and sculptor Hendrik Chabot , located in a monumental villa in the Museum Park in Rotterdam .The collection of the museum includes the collection of Apronemeijer of works from the 1920s and a collection of 26 works from the Second World War , from the private collection of Mrs Tol-Breugem.The museum is housed in a monumental villa in the Museumpark, near the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and the Netherlands Architecture Institute.

Children's Book Museum

The Kinderboekenmuseum is a museum in The Hague, Netherlands, dedicated to Dutch language children's books. It opened in 1994.

Corpus

The Corpus Museum is a human biology interactive museum, located near Oegstgeest in the Netherlands.Billed as "a journey through the human body", the museum provides both education and entertainment through a combination of permanent and variable collections.Opened in 2008 by Queen Beatrix, the museum is the world's first museum of its type.

De Mesdag Collectie

The Mesdag Collection, is a museum for visual arts in the Dutch city of The Hague. Its collection consists of the home - and also studio - of the Mesdag couple and the museum. The walls are richly decorated with authentic motifs and everywhere are large windows with a view of the museum garden and the tower of the Peace Palace . The presentation of the paintings and the interior gives the museum a nineteenth-century atmosphere.

Dordrechts Museum

A beautiful art museum founded in in 1842 and has a collection of artists of the last 400 years. It comprises of famous works of many famous artists and there is so many things to see and do.

Dutch Pinball Museum

The Dutch Pinball Museum is a museum in the Historic Delfshaven district of the South Holland city of Rotterdam. In the museum at Voorhaven 12, approximately one hundred and twenty pinball machines are set up, spread over two floors, the majority of which can be played. Older pinball machines can be found on the ground floor, such as the first pinball machine with flippers from 1947, the Humpty Dumpty.

Fotomuseum Den Haag

The Fotomuseum Den Haag is a photography museum in The Hague . The museum was founded in 2002 as part of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag and works closely with the Print Room of Leiden University Library. Each year, the Fotomuseum Den Haag organizes approximately six exhibitions on the most diverse periods, disciplines and genres of photographic history.

Het Nieuwe Instituut

Het Nieuwe Instituut in the South Holland city of Rotterdam is a museum for architecture , design and digital culture , and a platform for the creative industry. Exhibitions and debates are organized on the various design disciplines such as graphic design, product design, games, fashion, architecture, urban design and landscape architecture.

House Van Gijn

Huis Van Gijn is a museum , located in two monumental buildings on the Nieuwe Haven in Dordrecht , in the Dutch province of South Holland . The main building is the former home of the namesake, Simon van Gijn . The museum is set up in such a way that it seems as if time has stood still and the visitor can see what life was like a hundred years and more ago.

Huis van het Boek

A majestic museum, which was named after Willem Hendrik Jacob van Westreenen van Tiellandt on the Prinsessegracht 30 in The Hague.The museum has a collection of books from all periods of Western history. Medieval manuscripts, their manufacture, restoration, and accompanying research are one of the most important features of the collection. It is remarkable for its collection of sculpture, books, etchings, and paintings.

Japan Museum SieboldHuis

Japanmuseum SieboldHuis, is a museum on the Rapenburg in the Dutch city of Leiden . The museum displays objects that Philipp Franz von Siebold collected between 1823 and 1829 during his stay on Deshima , the Dutch trading settlement near Nagasaki in Japan . It also acts as a museum of Japanese culture.The SieboldHuis has a permanent exhibition of maps, rocks, animals and plants, utensils and art. In addition, changing exhibitions offer a varied program of Japanese art.

Kunstmuseum Den Haag

The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is a museum for modern arts and crafts in The Hague . It was founded in 1866 as the Museum of Modern Art. ​​​​​​​Its collection of Modern Art offers an overview of Dutch art since the early 19th century, supplemented with characteristic examples of art that emerged in other countries during the same period. Collection cores are: the Hague School , Symbolism around 1900, the artists around De Stijl and the Bauhaus and Expressionism .

Louwman Museum

The Louwman Museum is a museum for automobiles in The Hague . It aims to give a picture of what the automobile industry has produced since 1887.The collection of more than 275 cars has been brought together since 1934 by two generations of the Louwman family.

Maritime Museum

The Maritime Museum Rotterdam is a maritime museum in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Dedicated to naval history, it was founded in 1874 by Prince Henry of the Netherlands.The Museum Collection contains 850.000 objects from six centuries of maritime history.

Molen De Valk

Molen De Valk is a scaffolding mill and museum on the Lammermarkt in the Dutch city of Leiden. The current stone scaffolding mill is the third mill that has stood on this site. In 1611 the post mill "De Valck" was built on the Valkenburger stronghold. Since 2 June 1966, the mill has been in use as a municipal mill museum. De Valk has been milling again since 2000. As of 1 June 2013, the Molenmuseum De Valk is part of Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken .

Museon

The Museon is a popular science museum in The Hague with collections in the fields of geology, biology, history, archaeology, physics, technology and ethnology. The Museon is located between the Kunstmuseum and the Omniversum , in the west of the Zorgvliet district .Its collection consists of approximately 273,000 objects. Important items include the collection of objects belonging to the Inuit from Greenland and so more.

museum Beelden aan Zee

The Museum Beelden aan Zee in Scheveningen is the only Dutch museum devoted exclusively to sculpture. It was founded in 1994 by the collector couple Theo Scholten and Lida Miltenburg. The focus is on modern, contemporary international sculpture , especially post- World War II . Three to four times a year changing exhibitions can be seen in the Great Hall. They can be organized thematically, per movement or around the person of an artist.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

This is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. It houses the collections of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans (1767–1847) and Daniël George van Beuningen (1877–1955). The museum has become the house of over 151,000 artworks over 170 years.[3] In the collection, ranging from medieval to contemporary art, are works of Rembrandt, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Salvador Dalí and other famous collections.

Museum Bredius

Museum Bredius is a museum named after Abraham Bredius on the Lange Vijverberg in The Hague. It is remarkable for its collection of etchings and paintings, but is most attractive to visitors for its accurate restoration of the 18th-century Herenhuis interior with period furnishings.

Map of Museums to explore in South Holland