History museums in Noordwijk

Experience the Atlantic Wall at its best To protect their occupied territories in Western Europe, Nazi Germany built a 5,000-kilometer-long defensive line. A line that was intended to prevent the liberation of Western Europe. A large and unique bunker complex of this Atlantic Wall has been preserved

Museum Noordwijk is housed in a four hundred year old farmhouse. It is a museum on art, applied art and the history of Noordwijk. The collection includes Noordwijk costumes and paintings. The museum also has a large collection of ceramics made by porcelain factory ‘De Kroon’, including works by Henr

Museum Engelandvaarders is dedicated to the approximately 2,500 men and women who tried to escape from the Netherlands to continue the fight from England against Nazi Germany and Japan. The museum shows the situations and dilemmas the Engelandvaarders and their helpers faced. It also focuses on the

Streekmuseum Veldzicht is housed in a farmhouse from 1864. The village of Noordwijk has an agricultural past. In the late Middle Ages it was a centre for the cultivation of herbs. Farmers had an old Dutch breed of cow, named Blaarkop and around 1850 the floriculture was important for the village. Th