Profession & craft museums in Friesland

The Schaatsmuseum is dedicated to skating. The museum has the largest collection of ice skates and sledges in the world. In addition, it displays objects related to the Eleven Cities Tour. The museum also features an old workshop, a paint shops and forges.

Museum Joure is housed in ten buildings, including six national monuments. The ten buildings are surrounded by quays and a museum garden. One of the buildings once was the first factory of Dutch coffee manufacturer Douwe Egberts. The building features a coffee, tea and tobacco collection. On the 19t

The Fries Landbouwmuseum illustrates two thousand years of agricultural history of Friesland. Working, living and housing conditions of a peasant family in different time periods are illustrated, including the mound period, the Middle Ages and periods before and after the Second World War. The colle

In Scherjon's Klompenmakerij en Klompenmuseum various clogs are on display and the old craft is illustrated. Besides Dutch clogs, the museum exhibits clogs from all over the world. The museum shows the development, the fabrication and the use of clogs. In addition, there is a video presentation on t

The Nationaal Vlechtmuseum is dedicated to one of the oldest crafts: braiding. The museum shows that various materials can be used to braid. With various materials It shows both contemporary and traditional braided objects, such as basketry, furniture, jewellery, utensils, applied art and packaging.

Museum Oold Ark exhibits hand tools primarily used in the past at the ‘Stellingwerven’. In reconstructed workshops, exhibitions illustrate how the various tools were used in the past. The museum features a special room where tools of Mr. Bulthuis are exhibited, who restored wooden tjotters. Every ye