Culemborg: the Weeshuis tells the story of the town
In a centuries-old building, stories of growing up and the history of Culemborg come together.
The Elisabeth Weeshuis Museum is Culemborg’s town museum. It is housed in a building that was the first in the Netherlands to be built specifically for orphans.
Between 1560 and 1952, according to the museum, more than seven hundred orphans grew up here. Since 1928 the same building has also housed the town museum.
The Stichting Elisabeth Weeshuis owns the building and manages the legacy of Lady Elisabeth of Culemborg.
The museum is at Herenstraat 29. It is open Wednesday to Sunday from 12:00 to 17:00 and closed on Monday and Tuesday. From Culemborg station it is a fifteen- to twenty-minute walk.
Adults pay €12.50. For visitors with a physical disability, the first and second floors can be reached by lift.
Those arriving by car will find, according to the museum, the Het Hof car park a few minutes’ walk away.