Saturday, September 26, 2009

Openluchtmuseum

Today we visited the Openluchtmuseum in Arnhem (english site). The "open air museum" is a collection of houses and buildings transplanted from all over the Netherlands from different periods. For example, we saw an old paper mill, that is making paper, with a little ways further a steam powered dairy factory. There was also a row of houses from Tilburg, with each house in the style of a different time period. A house from a family in 1900, next to a house from 1950, next to a house, from 1975. This is definitely the best way to see Holland in a day. There was a special exhibit about dutch emigrants to America and Canada, also very interesting! Around the open air museum old trams from Arnhem, The Hague, and Rotterdam ride around. It was so cool!!!
lil' Evie

We had some delicious old fashioned poffertjes! Mmmm Lekker!

The rest of us took a bridge to cross the water, but Evie and Papa got to pull themselves across in a boat.

Felix saw everything from the stroller.

Windmill, how much more dutch can you get?

Evie got to milk a cow! Okay, the milk was water, and the cow was wooden... but fun nonetheless.

This chair was a normal size, really.

Evie gets weighed by an old consultatieburo.

1 comment:

rachel said...

klinkt interessant, vooral die huizen uit tilburg... wie weet staat mijn kamertje er over 50 jaar ook wel weer naast!(om te laten zien hoe het dus niet moet...)