South Kennemerland & Haarlem Historical Museum

Fax.: +31-(0)23-542 24 27

Info Telefon: +31-(0)23-542 24 27
Besucher-Email: info@historischmuseumhaarlem.nl
http://www.historischmuseumhaarlem.nl/...

Tue-Sat 12.00-17.00h. Sun 13.00-17.00h. Closed on monday.

The museum gives a review of the events of the history of Haarlem and its surroundings. In a audio visual presentation, Laurens Jansz-Coster recounts the Story of Haarlem. The Haarlem ''inventor of the art of printing'' pauses at the Siege of Haarlem in 1572, the serious fire of Haarlem a few years later, the coming of Flemish folk such as Frans Hals, the construction of the Vleeshal, the almshouses, the drainage of the Haarlemmermeer, the first train journey from Amsterdam to Haarlem in 1839 and the Haarlem flower girls.
Regularly changing exhibitions also highlight specific themes from the history of the city and the region.
Picture © Haarlem Historical Museum.
 

Spaarnestad Photo Gallery

Fax.: +31-(0)23-531 49 24

Info Telefon: +31-(0)23-551 84 32
Besucher-Email: expo@spaarnestadphoto.nl
http://www.spaarnestadphoto.nl/...

Tuesday till Sunday 13.00 – 17.00 h. Closed New Year's Day, Liberation Day, 2nd Easter Day and Boxing Day.

After its foundation, Spaarnestad Photo has been working as an independent institution at the preservation of the photographic archives of the former Haarlem based De Spaarnestad publishing company. From its beginning the task of SPH has been the preservation and disclosure of the abundance of the photographic contents of the archives - a century of Dutch and international documentary photography laid down in ca. 5 million photos (2005) - by turning the former company archives into an archive for the public. This is done, among other things, by making the photos available for (photo)historic research and educational purposes, by organizing exhibitions in SPH's own exhibition rooms in Haarlem or those of others and by stimulating photographic publications.The size and quality of SPH's collections make the archives one of the main photographic memories in the Netherlands. Together with Frans Hals Museum, Historisch Centrum Zuid-Kennemerland and Architectuur Bouwhistorisch Centrum (ABC), Spaarnestad Photo forms the cultural heart of Haarlem.
Photography © Spaarnestad Photo Gallery (Thomas Alva Edison with lightbulb).
 

Frans Hals Museum

Fax.: +31-(0)23- 511 57 76

Info Telefon: +31-(0)23 511 57 75
Besucher-Email: franshalsmuseum@haarlem.nl
http://www.franshalsmuseum.nl/...

Tuesday - Saturday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sundays and public holidays 12 noon - 5 p.m.
Closed on 25 December and 1 January. (c) DB Verlag C. Müller-Straten, MNC 2007

Internationally famous as a museum of the Dutch Golden Age, the Museum is situated in a picturesque 17th-century building, where hundreds of paintings and craft objects are on alternating display. The museum rooms offer an overview of Dutch painting at its peak in the 16th and especially the 17th century. The 16th-century collection features works by Hendrick Goltzius, Cornelis van Haarlem and Maerten van Heemskerck. Among the many masters representing the Golden Age are Frans Hals, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan Steen, Johannes Verspronck and Pieter Saenredam.
In the early 1960s the museum gained the Vleeshal (old meat hall) in Haarlem’s main marketplace as an annexe. In 1995 the Verweyhal was opened, which is adjacent to the Vleeshal. Together they form De Hallen, which house the museum’s large collection of modern art and provide space for exhibitions of modern and contemporary art.
 

De Hallen

Fax.: + 31 (0)23 511 57 76

Info Telefon: +31 (0)23 511 57 75
Besucher-Email: franshalsmuseum@haarlem.nl
http://www.dehallen.com/...

Tuesday - Saturday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sundays and public holidays 12 noon - 5 p.m.
Closed on 25 December and 1 January. (c) DB Verlag C. Müller-Straten, MNC 2007

De Hallen consists of two buildings: the Verweyhal built 1879–1880 in neo-classicist style for the gentlemen’s society ‘Trou moet Blijcken’ and the Vleeshal on the Grote Markt, which is an outstanding example of Dutch Renaissance architecture.
The museum owns a large collection of Dutch modern and contemporary art. Since 2001 the museum has concentrated on collecting contemporary photography, with an emphasis on photos with a social commitment.
The Frans Hals Museum organises exhibitions of modern and contemporary art in De Hallen.
 

Sexmuseum Amsterdam Venustempel

Info Telefon: +31 (0)20 622 8376
http://www.sexmuseumamsterdam.com/...

Daily 10:00 am to 11:30 pm.

The world's first and oldest sex museum with an extensive collection of erotic pictures, paintings, objects, recordings, photographs and even attractions. The exhibits include mannequins arranged in titillating tableau, Greek temple devotional items, Japanese carved erotic ivories and antique and modern fetish wear. There is a comprehensive selection of manuscripts and drawings ranging from the Karma Sutra to twentieth-century comics and a vast film and photographic library.
 

Het Dolhuys (Madhouse), the museum of psychiatry

Fax.: +31-(0)23 541 06 81

Info Telefon: +31-(0)23 541 06 70
Besucher-Email: info@hetdolhuys.nl
http://www.hetdolhuys.nl...

Tuesday to Friday 10 am – 5 pm. Saturdays, Sunday and Bank Holidays 12 noon – 5 pm.
Closed on 1 January, 30 April and 25 December.

The Dolhuys has occupied a function within the mental health system for the last 700 years. It was founded in 1320 as a leper-, plague- and mad-house. The long history of the building and the labyrinth of small rooms and passageways led to the idea of making the building the foundation for the exhibition in which ''the walls are able to speak''.
Experience the world of madness in the Dolhuys. Meet madmen and lunatics, or clients as they are known today, in our interactive museum and find out how the Netherlands has dealt with madness throughout the centuries.
We would like to encourage our visitors to think about the boundary between crazy and normal and question the representations of 'madness'.
In 2005 the Museum received the Dutch design award.
Photography © Het Dolhuys.
 

Haarlem Organ Museum

Tel.: +31-(0)23-5380497

Info Telefon: +31-(0)23-5385049
Besucher-Email: jankees.organmusic@tiscali.nl, c.h.j.ruijgvoorn@wanadoo.nl
http://www.draaiorgelmuseum.org/...

Stichting Stadsorgel Haarlem ''het Kunkels Orgel''

Sunday 12.00-19.00h and on appointment.

The museum has 10 historical instruments. Every sunday afternoon organ concerts are being held. On many sunday afternoons also a special guest organ is present. You can learn about the techniques and hear the differences in sound between the instruments.
Photography © Draaiorgelmuseum.
 

Haarlemmermeer Historical Museum

Fax.: +31-(0)23-5657221

Info Telefon: +31-(0)23-5620437
Besucher-Email: infohmh@xs4all.nl, historms@tref.nl
http://www.historisch-museum-haarlemmerm...

1 April -1 November: Tue-Sun 13.00 - 17.00h.
2 November-31 March: Sat-Sun 13.00-17.00h.

The museum tells the history of the Haarlemmermeer polder from its drainage in 1852 up to the present day. It is the story of a rapidly changing community of pioneers, artisans and the middle classes, of large landowners and industrialists.
Picture © Historisch Museum Haarlemmermeer.
 

Museum ''De Cruquius''

Fax.: +31-(0)23-5285704

Info Telefon: +31-(0)23-5285704
Besucher-Email: info@MuseumDeCruquius.nl
http://www.museumdecruquius.nl/...

March 1-Oct 31: Mon-Fri 10:00-17:00h, Sat, Sun and public holidays 11:00-17:00h.

The former steam pumping station ''De Cruquius'', from 1849, is an industrial monument of world proportions and part of the World Heritage. The station drained the Haarlemmermeer unti it was put out of service in 1933.
The Museum ''De Cruquius'' is one of the anchor points in the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH). The exhibition shows the steam pumping station in its archetypical Dutch context of a never ceasing struggle against the water. The former steam pumping station was built in neo-Gothic style. The building is richly ornamented and looks like a medieval castle. The museum's exhibition is equipped with audiovisuals and shows maps dating from 1550 tot 1852, various models of windmills, water raising devices, polders and sluices, showing how people for centuries tried to live below the sea level, keeping their feet dry. There are working steam engine models that show the development from ''fire engine'' till the steam engine. You might also assist to a demonstration of the oldest preserved steam engine in the Netherlands: the former steam pumping station ''De Arkelse Dam'' from 1826.
 

Kasteel Groeneveld

Fax.: 035-5421819

Info Telefon: 035-5420446

Tues-Sun 11-17 h.

Nature, Park, a xylothek and an exhibition on the manor and its inhabitants.