Railway Museum: station culture in a real station building
The Railway Museum is not housed in a station by coincidence. Maliebaan was a railway stop. The collection explains how that building once fitted into a network.
Stories from the Netherlands.
Museums
Louwman Museum: when the car was still an adventure
The Hague is home to one of the world’s oldest private car collections. The early vehicles show that driving was initially an experiment, not a daily commute.
TextielMuseum Tilburg: seeing how fabric is made
Tilburg was a wool city. The TextielMuseum does not merely preserve samples. It shows the machines that turn thread into cloth.
Museum Speelklok: music that plays without a musician
In Utrecht, an entire museum is devoted to instruments that play themselves. The question is not only how they sound. The question is how the music is stored inside them.
Medemblik Steam Engine Museum: power for water and industry
On the IJsselmeer stands a museum in a former steam pumping station. Its machines tell the story of why steam once made the difference between a wet polder and dry farmland.