Top rated Local history museums in Zaandam, Netherlands to elevate your visit (Updated May, 2024)

Top rated Local history museums in Zaandam

Experience the best that Zaandam has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 43 places from Local history museum category.

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Museummolen Blokweer

Water mill

😠 Why so rude to us 😢 We two were checking the only signage around the windmill - “please scan ticket” outside the hut under the windmill, a staff went out at that time and asked us about ticket, we said no then were ordered rudely to leave that area :( Suggest them to make clear signage to show the...

4.70 (1K reviews) (~63.95 km from centre)

Boerenbondsmuseum

Open air museum

👍👍 Echt terug in de tijd van hoe het was in Brabant rond 1900, geweldig!! En brabantse gastvrijheid, geschikt voor een leuke dag uit en bovendien leerzaam ook!!

4.70 (468 reviews) (~113.23 km from centre)

Stichting "Nobels Nostalgisch Museum"

Museum

👍👍 Mooi gearrangeerd museum met sfeervol samenhangende opstelling van talloze historische voorwerpen, je loopt rond in de sfeer van een eeuw geleden. Prachtig en dierbaar.

4.70 (218 reviews) (~125.35 km from centre)

De Eenhoorn koffie & thee

Coffee store

👍👍 Delicious, honest, freshly roasted coffee! But also a delicious assortment of tea and sweets for that. Friendly and knowledgeable staff. Wide range of coffee and tea supplies and / or gifts.

4.70 (65 reviews) (~74.73 km from centre)

Ransdorpertoren

Local history museum

👍 Helaas door de corona kan je de toren niet beklimmen anders heb je een perfect uitzicht. Vooral niet vergeten je telelens mee te nemen.

4.70 (43 reviews) (~12.39 km from centre)

Museummolen Nederwaard

Heritage museum

UNESCO World Heritage park with 19 windmills dating from 18th century, plus museum and working mill.

4.60 (950 reviews) (~63.5 km from centre)

Streekmuseum Baron van Brakell

Local history museum

👍 Beautiful regional museum named after a great benefactor for the ordinary (agricultural) worker. Run by enthusiastic volunteers. . Beautiful collection of crafts from the first half of the 20th century

4.60 (186 reviews) (~72.04 km from centre)

Wieringer Eilandmuseum Jan Lont

Local history museum

👍👍 An old farm that has been preserved with a lot of love and tells the story here at the turn of the century. Jan Lont lived here on the former island of Wieringen. Great, beautiful excursion where you can marvel at all sorts of objects from the household and work on the farm here. Lots to discover fo...

4.60 (89 reviews) (~55.12 km from centre)

Lighthouse Texel

Local history museum

Historic seaside beacon with a spiral steel staircase leading to panoramic vistas at the top.

4.50 (7.9K reviews) (~82.26 km from centre)

Museum Giethoorn 't Olde Maat Uus

Local history museum

Living museum showcasing a historic farming village with costumed actors, a gift shop & a cafe.

4.50 (2.2K reviews) (~90.63 km from centre)

Bunker Museum Terschelling

Local history museum

😐 I enjoyed looking around the museum site. Staff was friendly and spoke English but there was not any information or tours in English. They would only let you into the largest bunker if you were with a group and the tour groups only spoke Dutch. Very frustrating. I was not allowed into the main bunke...

4.50 (1.3K reviews) (~106.56 km from centre)

Coendersborg | Het Groninger Landschap

Local history museum

👍 Leuke route van 4.5 km door bos met af en toe een bruggetje naar een andere omgeving.

4.50 (111 reviews) (~126.25 km from centre)

Steenfabriek de Bosscherwaarden

Local history museum

👍👍 Veel bakstenen bij laag water😀

4.50 (80 reviews) (~63.42 km from centre)

TAPIJTMUSEUM GENEMUIDEN

History museum

4.50 (67 reviews) (~84.5 km from centre)

Rijksmuseum de Gevangenpoort

Local history museum

Tours of crime & punishment museum with jailer's quarters, interrogation room and judges' chambers.

4.40 (1.5K reviews) (~53.65 km from centre)

Castellum Hoge Woerd

Cultural center

👍👍 Beatiful reconstruction of a Roman castel and conserved Roman ship, excellent exhibition

4.40 (1.2K reviews) (~42.07 km from centre)

Heeze Castle

Castle

👍 I was not able to go inside. Do not know why it was closed. May be Corona reasons. The surrounding is fully covered with nature. Have a look at my pictures.

4.40 (466 reviews) (~128.94 km from centre)

Historisch Centrum Leeuwarden

Local history museum

👍👍 Just located behind the Ceramics Museum. A history center with exhibitions about the history of Leeuwarden city and Fryslan, temporary exhibition about hospital in Leeuwarden and Erwin in January 2023. No need to make an appointment to see the exhibitions but if you are interested in archives you ne...

4.40 (410 reviews) (~106.52 km from centre)

Streekmuseum Krimpenerwaard

Local history museum

Museum in a 17th-century farmhouse that recreates the life of a typical late-19th-century household.

4.40 (156 reviews) (~60.4 km from centre)

Antiquity Room Texel

Heritage museum

👍👍 A cute museum you can experience old days of Texelaars.

4.40 (123 reviews) (~68.2 km from centre)

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Top rated Local history museums in Zaandam, Netherlands