Day out in Zeeland
Top 10 museums for children in Zeeland
A trip to a museum with the kids is not just fun, but educational too. A number of museums in Zeeland organise special activities for children. This way they can learn about Zeeland’s past and have fun in the process! We’ve put together a list of ten of the best museums for kids in Zeeland. Read more here!
Sluis, Zeeland-Flanders
The Belfort Museum
The only Flemish clock tower (‘belfort’) in the Netherlands is situated in the centre of Sluis. Nowadays, the Belfort houses a museum and exhibition space. And of course, it’s fun for children too! Visiting the town hall cellar, the council chamber and the mayoral office is like travelling back in time. You can also climb the belfry and enjoy breathtaking views of the town and surrounding countryside. With its interactive games, treasure hunt, quiz room and films, a visit to the Belfort Museum is a fun excursion for all the family!
Goes, Zuid-Beveland
Goes-Borsele steam preservation railway line
Riding the Goes-Borsele railway is experiencing history at first hand, as it speeds its way along: the steam engine whistles, the fireman is blackened by soot and the ticket collector comes along and clips your ticket. Watch the countryside of Zuid-Beveland roll by from the window of a traditional carriage. Tip! The station at Hoedekenskerke has all sorts of activities for children, including a playground, an old hawker’s stall and a miniature railway. All aboard!
Oostkapelle, Walcheren
Terra Maris
Kids and nature make a great combination! A visit to Terra Maris, the museum in Zeeland for natural history and landscape, is always a winner with kids. Exhibitions take place inside the museum. But there are plenty of outdoor activities too. Children can run around in the landscape garden, whilst at the same time learning all about Zeeland’s natural and scenic beauty. They can also explore in and around the castle, and in the summer medieval tournaments are organised in the grounds. At these events, children can learn how to bake bread and play games from the Middle Ages.
Vlissingen, Walcheren
Maritiem MuZEEum Zeeland
For centuries, the sea has been at the centre of life in Zeeland. MuZEEum in Vlissingen tells the story of Zeeland’s rich maritime past. Seafaring heroes, such as Michiel de Ruyter, shipwrecks, pirates, privateers and the fishing industry all feature. Fun activities are organised to help children to discover this rich past, for example, a treasure hunt with games and exercises.
Breskens, Zeeland-Flanders
Breskens Fisheries Museum
The Fisheries Museum in Breskens recalls the lives of fishermen working at sea. The tales of ordinary fisherfolk, their boats, their fishing tackle and their catches are told by way of an informative film. Children can learn how to knit nets and tie knots. Or stand eyeball to eyeball with creatures of the ocean in the aquarium, such as sharks, flatfish, crabs, prawns, starfish and lobsters.
Museum of the Liberation of Zeeland
It was touch and go, but in the end, peace came after the Second World War in Zeeland. The cost and the gain of the pivotal Battle of the Schelde. Part of the Bevrijdingsmuseum is devoted to the Zeeland park of liberation: the grizzly nitty-gritty of bunkers, a Bailey bridge, barricades, Sherman tanks and the emergency wartime church which came to stay.
Nieuwdorp, Zuid-Beveland
The Liberation Museum in Nieuwdorp
The Zeeland Liberation Museum tells the eventful years of the Second World War in Zeeland, in which the Battle of the Scheldt had a decisive role to play. The Zeeland liberation park forms part of the Liberation Museum. The war years are visualised, for example, by means of a Bailey bridge, roadblocks, Sherman tanks and a well-preserved temporary church dating from this period.
Middelburg, Walcheren
Zeeuws Museum
The Zeeuws Museum challenges children to look further than the ends of their noses. Workshops or guided tours are regularly organised, specifically for children and younger museum visitors. A treasure hunt, for example, takes in exhibitions, archaeological finds, world-famous tapestries and exotic objects that Zeelanders brought back from faraway places.
Veere, Walcheren
Grote Kerk Veere Experience
The Grote Kerk in Veere is full of secrets and mysteries. Step into the history of this ‘stone giant’ when you visit the Grote Kerk Veere Experience. Discover history in an interactive setting. Heritage enchantingly comes to life here by way of projections, 3D sound, and dazzling animations.
