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Museonder

Tourist attraction Museum Visitor center

Park's visitor center with an info desk, nature videos & a space for art & photo exhibitions. People often mention park, museum, free, animals,


Address

Houtkampweg 9c, 6731 AV Otterlo, Netherlands

Website

www.hogeveluwe.nl

Contact

+31 55 833 0833

Rating on Google Maps

4.20 (505 reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Thursday: 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
  • Friday: 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
  • Saturday: 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
  • Sunday: 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
  • Monday: 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
  • Tuesday: 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
  • Wednesday: 9:30 am to 5:30 pm

Featured Reviews


Frequently mentioned in reviews: park (10) museum (9) free (6) animals (6)
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  • 3/5 Taryn B. 1 year ago on Google • 17 reviews
    It’s great that there is a free museum (if you have paid to enter the park), and there is a lot of good information there. However, the entire display regarding the wolves in the park seems less focused on education and more focused on fearmongering. Mouflons are a feral, domesticated species and the information the park has about their conservation status is misleading, as conservation efforts in their range in Sardinia has been quite effective (although apparently not so much in Corsica) and there are large populations throughout Europe. I think it’s reasonable for the park to have the management goal of prioritizing their mouflon population, but I do think they are going about it the wrong way with their aggressive anti-wolf stance. One aspect of maintaining biodiversity is learning how to coexist with other species.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Lillian 1 year ago on Google • 229 reviews
    Super nice museum, its free and full of infos about the park and the animals. Impressive + very friendly staffs
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 Boaz 2 years ago on Google • 124 reviews
    All I remember is the hundreds of “Do not touch” signs. By looking at my pictures you get what the whole museum is about.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Amber A. 1 year ago on Google • 113 reviews
    Nice museum to walk around while having a break from cycling around the forest. It’s free to enter if you have paid to go into the whole park. There is a lot to learn about the area. There is lots of interactive elements to hear things and see things and lots of taxidermized animals which gives a good visual of the real animals. Some of the photos/images/videos seem to be quite outdated though.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Songrong J. 1 year ago on Google • 80 reviews
    It’s an interesting museum with real animal skeletons and specimens. Also, it introduces some geography knowledge about the rain fall and the geology. I’ve seen parents and children coming here for a knowledgeable visit.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Daan W. 1 year ago on Google
    Very interesting and educating exhibitions
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Nic B. 1 year ago on Google • 92 reviews
    At the middle of Hoch Veluwe is the National Park pavilion and this museum. An exhibition about the National Park which really explains what the place is about. A section on save the mouflon is very up to date explaining the predicament of the local mouflon herd now being wiped out by illegally introduced wolves which the National Park cannot shoot. Tackling a current affair with a professional exhibition like this is very rare, and though I didn't agree with the thrust of the argument and some of the emotive language and depictions it was very good to see. Some of the rest of the building was also very good but the underground exhibition was the best, with cross sections of the underlying sands and gravels interpreted to make this apparently flat and physically uneventful area come alive. The display on groundwater was the first time I've ever seen this topic tackled in a visitor centre. There was even some quirky artwork on the stairs back up - dozens of brass pipes with flared bells at the end like post horns.

  • 4/5 Jan Willem E. 9 months ago on Google • 46 reviews
    Smaller than expected but completely free of charge when you bought a ticket into the park. Definitely worth a visit as it's probably the last place you'll see animals in the park as the rest are eaten by the wolves, hehe. Great exhibit of skulls and extinct animals.

  • 3/5 Antonio L. 7 months ago on Google • 43 reviews
    Nice place with very interesting ideas on life and death in the natural cycles. Rather than a museum could be ragarded as an interesting experiment in natural history teaching.

  • 2/5 Deniz S. 1 year ago on Google • 26 reviews
    Its fun and informative, especially for small kids, but its a very small museum campaired to how its advertised and if you have limited time in the Hoge Veluwe its not worth visiting.

  • 5/5 Lim Chong Y. 7 years ago on Google
    Free to visit for park visitors. Great to understand more about the park and how it came to be. Its sand dunes were a result of human activity instead of being formed naturally.

  • 4/5 Nelson H. 6 years ago on Google
    Interesting place. We appreciated the information on animals and plants. We also liked how the buildings are built to blend in with the forest.

  • 4/5 Matthias C. 6 years ago on Google
    Very informative, on a subject most people know little about. (Soil etc) and very free. The only downside is that the displays can get a tad loud at times.

  • 4/5 Aravind G. 1 year ago on Google
    Very nice

  • 5/5 Elbér A. 2 years ago on Google
    Great experience for younger kids, nostalgic as I was here when I was still a kid. Equally great experience

  • 5/5 Fabian K. 1 year ago on Google
    Museum for free. Very lovely.

  • 5/5 Hari Narayan S. 1 year ago on Google
    Great place to know the part of land

  • 3/5 Pannekoek S. 1 year ago on Google
    Honestly kinda boring take on education.. Needs more exciting interactive stuff that actually works.. Take a look at some other musea focusing on nature maybe?

  • 5/5 Peter B. 3 years ago on Google
    Nice place

  • 5/5 Снежана �. 1 year ago on Google
    Very good. Wonder ful.

  • 5/5 Jeroen Priester (Just V. 4 years ago on Google
    Nice visitor center. Also a educational exposition that's well worth to visit.

  • 5/5 T N. 4 years ago on Google
    A beautiful serene location. Bike riding close by and through a national forest, beautiful.

  • 4/5 Futte 9 months ago on Google
    Very interesting museum for both children and adults. Beautifull surroundings.

  • 5/5 David E. 8 months ago on Google • 16 reviews
    Interesting, fun way to look at the unusual environment.

  • 5/5 DcPwnsify 2 years ago on Google
    Very nice, but small.


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Amenities


  • Accessibility
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible toilet
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible car park
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible entrance

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