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Overijssel is a province of the Netherlands located in the eastern part of the country. Its capital city of Zwolle boasts a rich history, but the town of Enschede takes the crown for being the province’s largest city. Overijssel features a number of picturesque natural reserves, including De Weeribben.

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Museums to Explore in Overijssel

Herman Brood Experience

Herman Brood Museum & Experience is a museum in Zwolle about the rock singer and artist Herman Brood. The museum tells the story of the artist's life. It shows drawings, paintings, pieces of clothing, furniture, a guitar, poetry albums by his sisters, photographs, film material and all kinds of other objects from Brood's life.

Historical Museum Vriezenveen

The Historical Museum Vriezenveen is located in the old town hall of the Overijssel town of Vriezenveen , right in the center.The museum deals with the history of the municipality of Vriezenveen. There is, among other things, a section on the textile history of Vriezenveen, and documentation on the great fire that ravaged Vriezenveen on May 16, 1905, in which 228 homes, the town hall and two churches were lost.

The Icon Museum in Recklinghausen was founded in 1956 and is the most important of its kind in Western Europe. The collection is the largest outside the Orthodox world. The collection is the largest in the western hemisphere. Over 3,500 icons, embroideries, miniatures, and wood and metal works are on display in the museum. The countries of origin are Russia , Greece , Ethiopia and the Balkans.

Museum Buurtspoorweg (Station Boekelo)

The Museum Buurtspoorweg operates a museum railway between Haaksbergen and Boekelo in Overijssel . The foundation was established on February 21, 1967 and on June 23, 1989, it was the first railway company besides the Nederlandse Spoorwegen to obtain a transport concession for the Haaksbergen – Boekelo section.

Museum de Fundatie

Museum de Fundatie is a museum for visual arts in Zwolle , the capital of Overijssel . Museum de Fundatie is part of the Hannema-de Stuers Fundatie foundation, which also includes Castle Het Nijenhuis in Heino . Museum de Fundatie owns a collection of visual art, from the late Middle Ages to the present, based on the collection of Dirk Hannema , former director of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.

Museum De Museumfabriek

The Museum Factory is a museum in Enschede that was called TwentseWelle before May 2018. The Museum Factory is a family museum where the future is discovered through learning, playing, working, thinking, experimenting and dreaming. The exhibitions inspire young and old to learn and to invent, try and assemble things themselves. That can be done in the factory. The historical collections of the museum are always the great source of inspiration.

Museum Giethoorn 't Olde Maat Uus

This is a living museum showcasing a historic farming village with costumed actors, a gift shop & a cafe. It is the only place in Giethoorn where you can see how people lived more than 100 years ago and how they earned a meagre living by cutting peat and building small boats. There is also a museumshop with coffeecorner and temporary exposition. An audiotour in multiple languages is included in the entrance fee.

Museum Hengelo is a museum and knowledge center for the local history of Hengelo . The museum tells personal stories of residents of Hengelo who have fallen into oblivion and shows the urban development over the years. The museum was founded in 1973 and is located in a former shop annex residence that was converted into a mansion around 1880. It is one of the few nineteenth-century buildings in the city with original fireplaces, stained glass windows and plastered ceilings.

Museum Natura Docet

Museum Natura Docet is a natural history museum in Denekamp , Twente . The museum was founded in 1911 by teacher JB Bernink. It was the first natural history museum in the Netherlands that was open to the public. Various items such as minerals , fossils and stuffed animals can be seen in the museum . The museum has a museum garden that has been laid out as a landscape garden with plants that occur in Twente .

Museum No Hero is a museum for visual art in Delden. The museum is located in the former steward's house on the Twickel estate . The house dates from 1726. In 1867 the first major renovation of the building took place. From 2015 to 2018, the building was made suitable as a museum. The museum has a spacious garden where works of art are also displayed. The museum has a permanent collection with works by Karel Appel , Rainer Fetting and Frank Stella , among others .

Museum Palthehof

Museum Palthehof is a museum in the Oaveriesselse village of Ni'jlusen , where you can learn about the history of this place. The Museum is dedicated to the Palthe family, who were landowners on Ni'jlusen until 1928. 't Stiet for the south side of the village elegen Palthebos , previously owned by this family.In the museum you will find inventories of all sorts of craft activities, farm work, household goods and clothes and many more.

Museum Staphorst

Museum Staphorst offers you plenty of opportunity to discover Staphorst's culturally rich past and present. It occupies two farms. A reception room has been set up in the front farm. Behind it is an older typical Staphorster farm. The living area is still in its original state and there are exhibitions where regional costumes, jewelry and folk art are exhibited.

Nationaal Tinnen Figuren Museum

The National Tin Figures Museum is a museum in Ommen in Overijssel. The collection consists of pewter, paper, tin, plastic or papier-mâché figures, placed in dioramas. Among other events, the museum displays a large diorama of the Battle of Waterloo with over 10,000 figures.

Natuurmuseum Holterberg

Nature Museum Holterberg is a nature museum and information center for the Sallandse Heuvelrug National Park. The museum consists of 11 life-size dioramas in which more than 1000 animals are exhibited in their natural position and living environment. Several restaurants are located near the museum. About 250 meters to the northeast is the Holten Canadian War Cemetery .

Openluchtmuseum Ootmarsum

A beautiful museum, which takes you to the Twente of yesteryear. In a park-like setting, various authentic buildings, each with its own inventory and story, and many utensils provide a fascinating picture of life.The museum also tells the story of the 'Heeren', the administrators of the past, the commander, the Drost and the Hofmeier.

Oyfo Techniekmuseum

This is a interactive Technology Museum, which is about what technology means in life. In the old factory of the Hazemeijer it is all about steam engines and smartphones, robots and art and energy sources and the planet. In short, everything about people and technology.

Rijksmuseum Twenthe

A beautiful museum, which was founded in 1927 by textile industry Baron Jan Bernard Van Heek. He donated his own private collection and the museum building to the government, thus making it a national museum. Now the museum has become focused on 18th-century art as well as contemporary works, with the collection of Art & Project, a former art gallery owned by Geert van Beijeren and Adriaan van Ravesteijn

Rijssens Leemspoor Foundation

The Rijssens Leemspoor Foundation operates a museum railway in the Overijssel city of Rijssen . The museum tells the story of the narrow -gauge railway in the field of the brick industry in and around Rijssen. A century ago there were about 15 brick factories in Rijssen, of which four were still left in the 1960s. These had a narrow gauge railway from the beginning of the 20th century until 1964 to transport clay from the quarry to the factories.

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