All profession & craft museums to visit in Drenthe

Discover the skills and trades that have shaped societies at 7 profession and craft museums in Drenthe. These museums highlight the history and techniques of various professions and crafts.

Are you interested in the art of craftsmanship? These are the must-visit profession and craft museums in Drenthe:

  1. Veenpark1

    Veenpark

     Barger-Compascuum
    Veenpark has an arcreage of 160 hectares, which makes it the largest museum in the Netherlands. This open-air museum is dedicated to the digging of the brown gold, peat. The peat history of Drenthe comes to life in this museum. The visitor travels through nostalgic villages and a bog area with peat
  2. Olie- en Korenmolen Woldzigt2

    Olie- en Korenmolen Woldzigt

     Roderwolde
    Authentic and unique 1852 industrial mill containing a "department" for the production of linseed oil (called oil milling) and a "department" of flour milling. Both are still fully operational and are still in regular use. Everything still functions just as it was built in 1852. Regularly, a grou
  3. Tractor & Werktuigen Museum Jan Drenthe3

    Tractor & Werktuigen Museum Jan Drenthe

     Valthermond
    Old agricultural machinery of the brand and dealership McCormick-Deering / International Harvester / Farmall (IHC), including tractors, plows, mowers. Attention to the Marshall Plan and its role in the post-war development of agricultural mechanization in the region. Also peat-colonial agricultural
  4. International Wooden Shoe Museum4

    International Wooden Shoe Museum

     Eelde
    The International Wooden Shoe Museum Eelde is a museum dedicated to the wooden shoe, wooden shoe making machines and tools used by clog makers. The museum has the greatest and most extensive collection of clogs in the world. The collection consists of more than 3,000 pairs of clogs and other wooden
  5. Orvelte Poort - Ottenshoes5

    Orvelte Poort - Ottenshoes

     Orvelte
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    Klokkengieterijmuseum Vries

     Vries
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    Dorpsmuseum De Kluis

     Eext
    Village Museum The Vault is housed in the former freezer vault built in 1958. The building used to consist of 120 freezer cells. The museum organizes exhibitions about old businesses that have already disappeared, such as a bakery, repair shop, blacksmith, barber and shoemaker. In one part of the mu