See & do

Dive into the story behind the photograph and discover a fresh perspective.

In the Zuiderzee Museum you will find the largest museum collection of ships in the Netherlands. These ships, which once sailed the former Zuiderzee, can now be seen in the Museum.

Dive into the sea of stories

Meet former as well as current inhabitants of the Zuiderzee region, and listen to their stories about their daily lives, their work, clothes, homes and how they spent what little leisure time they had. About their past and present customs and feasts and fests. And about their eternal struggle against the water and the construction of the dike that changed everything: the Afsluitdijk.

Do you think you're a good water worker? This expedition, which will bring you to different places on land and sea, starts in the water workshop.

On the town canal there is a house full of old-fashioned clothes: the dress-up box.

In around 1900, some painters ran a paint shop from their workplace. They make and sell all kinds of products there, such as paint of course, but also advertising signs, glass and wallpaper.

Take a look at what the butcher’s shop looked like a hundred years ago!

The paint and ‘decorating materials’ are ready for you in the D-I-Y studio so that you can pimp your clog.