Location: Wierdijk 12- 22, Enkhuizen Map
Tel. 0228- 351111
Open:
Apr- Oct: 10am- 5pm daily
Nov- Mar: 10am- 5pm Tue- Sun
Closed: 1 Jan, 25 Dec
Official site
Zuiderzeemuseum is a historic settlement in the town of Enkhuizen in West-Frisia region of Netherlands. The city of Zuiderzeemuseum used to be an important sea port, but after construction of Afsluitdijk causeway in 1930's it lost its importance. Zuiderzeemuseum consists of open air museum known as the Buitenmuseum and the Binnenmuseum that is devoted to shipping heritage, farming, fishing and general way of life. The Buitenmuseum consists of more than 130 different buildings, both residential and various workshops, that were brought here from all over the region. It was meant to represent traditional way of life that was common in late 19th century, although some structures date back as far as the 17th century. Residents of the Zuiderzeemuseum village also wear dresses that were common in the time period.
The impetus for founding the Zuiderzee
Museum was an exhibition that was held around 1930 in the
Wilhelminaplantsoen in Enkhuizen. In this Zuiderzee fishing
exhibition, houses of cardboard were set up and original residents
in traditional costume walked around from the real villages around
the Zuiderzee. Due to the threat of war and the Second World War,
plans for a Zuiderzee Museum were suspended.
On May 27, 1947,
the Friends of the Zuiderzeemuseum Association was founded and on
January 16, 1948, the Royal Decree was signed, officially giving the
start to make the Rijksmuseum Zuiderzeemuseum possible. For a
symbolic amount of one guilder, the friends of the Zuiderzee Museum
obtained the warehouses of the seed trade Sluis and Groot aan de
Wierdijk as accommodation. The government took over these buildings,
restored them and has maintained them ever since. The buildings of
the indoor museum are owned by the Government Buildings Agency. The
buildings in the outdoor museum of the Domeinen Service.
The
first director of the museum was Siebe Jan Bouma. In his period as
director of the Netherlands Open Air Museum in Arnhem between 1942
and 1948, he was already working on plans for a museum where life
around the former Zuiderzee could be remembered. With that in mind,
Bouma actively searched for buildings and objects that could do
justice to a museum. Bouma was unable to take the entire collection
with him to Enkhuizen when he became director there. A description
was drawn up of what Bouma could and could not bring from Arnhem.
Buildings he had in mind or had already purchased remained in
Arnhem. All other collected objects were allowed.
The
Binnenmuseum of the Zuiderzee Museum was opened on 1 July 1950. The
Peperhuis was the first of the row of buildings that followed later.
Bouma was already looking further and wanted an outdoor museum to be
realized in the long term. Shortly after the aforementioned Royal
Decree had been received, a correspondence already started with
municipalities that lie along the former Zuiderzee and where it was
known that buildings would disappear from the cityscape.
In
the municipality of Kampen was the neighborhood Brunnepe, which was
made available to the former inhabitants of Schokland when they had
to leave the island by May 1859 at the latest, and had mainly moved
to the places Kampen, Volendam and Vollenhove. Kampen wanted to
demolish those homes from the point of view of urban remediation.
This was an opportunity for Bouma to acquire properties.
On
May 6, 1983, Queen Beatrix opened the Buitenmuseum, which was added
to the Zuiderzee Museum. The location where it was built was used
before 1970 as a storage site for the Zuiderzee Works for the
construction of the dike to Lelystad.
The first building to
be built was the Gasthuiskapel from Den Oever, which was rebuilt in
the same way as the church in Oosterend on Texel. The first building
that already came into the ownership of the Zuiderzee Museum in 1948
was the dike house from Hindeloopen, which in 2016 houses a café
along the dike of the Buitenmuseum. The interior of this dyke house
has been exhibited in the Binnenmuseum for many years, featuring
Hindelooper costumes that have their own style among the costumes
around the Zuiderzee.
Around 1993 the museum became
independent under the name: Stichting Rijksmuseum Zuiderzeemuseum.
The indoor museum consists of, among other
things, a ships hall with thirteen real ships that have sailed on
the Zuiderzee, including three large fishing boats and, among
others, the boeier Sperwer. way to do with the Zuiderzee. For
example, there are ship models, costumes, paintings and utensils
from the Zuiderzee area on display.
In the past there was
also a whaling exhibition. However, this collection has been
transferred to Het Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam.
In addition to the permanent exhibitions such as the Schepenhal and the Sea full of stories, the museum also has changing exhibitions.
2009-2010 Zuiderzee in map
2010-2011 Home |
Style
2011-2012 NIJVER | present
2012-2012 Year of the Water
2013-2015 The Netherlands in 7 floods - The Zuiderzee (in
collaboration with NTR)
2014-2017 Design route
2014-2014 Smell
the time
2015-2015 Travel rich
2016-2016 Wild van Water
2016-2017 10 Years of Thomas Eyck
2017 Handmade
2018 At the
Table
2019-2020 Clothes make the woman
Outdoor museum
The Buitenmuseum is divided into
five different neighborhoods. Central is a village, built according
to situations of villages around the Zuiderzee with mainly authentic
(and a few copied) buildings from the former Zuiderzee and Wadden
area. The different areas are shown on the map opposite. Various old
towns and villages on the Zuiderzee have been used as examples for
the neighborhoods. Many of the buildings in the various
neighborhoods also come from the village or city that the
neighborhood represents. A nature area has been created on the
grounds of the Buitenmuseum, this starts at the height of the lime
kilns. Among other things, the contour of a Duck Decoy has been
constructed in the nature reserve. Recognizable is the kooibos, the
kooiplas, four catching pipes and a cage house. The other
characteristic elements such as the screens, the trapping pens, etc.
were never installed in and around the cage during the construction
of the Buitenmuseum.
Particularities
In 2007, a number of scenes
from the Dutch feature film De Scheepsjongens van Bontekoe were
recorded in the outdoor museum, in 1999 some scenes by Kruimeltje,
as well as the Dutch youth film Apenreken from 2015 and the
Sinterklaas film from 2011 entitled Bennie Stout.
The Suske en
Wiske story The golden harpoon is partly set in the Zuiderzee Museum
The artist duo Bassie and Adriaan partly recorded their series of
Songs from Grandmother's Time in the Zuiderzee Museum.