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De Kluis village museum, Eext

6.9 km

Photo: Rolde.nl - 2024

Village museum in the former communal freezer of Eext, with objects, photos and stories from the village and the surrounding area, from prehistory to the twentieth century.

The building is itself a piece of village history. The communal freezer was built in 1958 and had 120 freezer lockers in which vegetables and meat were stored. When people got their own chest freezers at home around 1970, it fell out of use. Now the museum shows the history of Eext and the villages around it.

Much of what is on display comes from the people of Eext themselves: household objects, farm tools, clothing, documents and photos. There are displays of businesses that have disappeared, such as a wheelwright's, a bakery, a smithy and a barber's. In the period room, a living room from the early twentieth century has been recreated, with an old ceiling and a wall of cupboards with a box bed.

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Drents Museum Assen

5.5 km from de Jacobuskerk in Rolde

The Drents Museum in Assen Photo: Wikipedia: Ziko - 2005

Museum in Assen on the archaeology, art and history of Drenthe, with the Yde Girl and the Pesse canoe among its exhibits.

The Drents Museum stands on the Brink in Assen, on the site of the former convent of Maria in Campis. It was founded on 28 November 1854 as the Provinciaal Museum van Oudheden (Provincial Museum of Antiquities) and started with a single cabinet in the provincial hall. Art, applied art and cultural history were added later. It has been called the Drents Museum since 1996.

The buildings

The museum occupies a number of historic buildings around the Brink: the old provincial hall, the Ontvangershuis, the Drostenhuis and the Abdijkerk. There was no room to expand within the old convent complex, so the architect Erick van Egeraat designed an underground museum wing, with a museum garden above it. Queen Beatrix opened the renewed museum on 16 November 2011. Since then the entrance has been in the former coach house of the Drostenhuis, which is linked to the new wing by a tunnel.

The collection

The archaeological collection covers the prehistory of Drenthe. You can see bog bodies, such as the Yde Girl and the Weerdinge Couple, finds from the Funnel Beaker culture, the people who also built the dolmens, and the Pesse canoe, which is considered the oldest boat in the world.

The museum also has a large collection of figurative art, mainly Northern Realism, with work by Henk Helmantel and Matthijs Röling among others. Another collection covers art and applied art from 1885 to 1935, the period of Art Nouveau and Art Deco, with work by Jan Toorop and Jan Sluijters among others. In the period rooms in the Ontvangershuis you can see how well-to-do Drenthe families used to live.

There is always a temporary exhibition on, often with loans from museums abroad. The exhibition on the Chinese Terracotta Army drew 353,000 visitors in 2008. There are guided tours and workshops for children, talks and theme days for adults, and special programmes for schools.

Visiting

Assen is about six kilometres west of Rolde. Most of the museum is accessible by wheelchair; there is a lift and wheelchairs can be borrowed. There is a museum café and a museum shop. Opening times and admission prices are on drentsmuseum.nl.

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Drentsche Aa National Park Visitor Centre

2.4 km

The Drentsche Aa National Park visitor centre in the Huis van de Drentsche Aa near Deurze, with displays on the landscape and wildlife and information on walking and cycling routes.

Learn about the countryside around Rolde at the Drentsche Aa National Park visitor centre, housed in the Huis van de Drentsche Aa near Deurze. Displays explain the landscape, streams and wildlife, and you can find information on walking and cycling routes. It is a useful first stop before exploring the area.