Stories & Collection
The Zandvoorts Museum has a large collection of stories and objects. Read our stories and view our collections. Contribute to the history of Zandvoort. The history of Zandvoort lives in stories, photos and memories. Do you have a special moment that should be preserved?
Contribute...
The history of Zandvoort is widely discussed through interactive collection management, organized walks through the old center of the village and the heritage learning path for primary schools. In the permanent exhibitions The Life of Memories and 200 years of Club Love, the nostalgia of old Zandvoort can be found. The Zandvoorts Museum would like to add to the history of Zandvoort with your help.
Write a story about a woman, man, family, community or about a place, an event that has meant something to Zandvoort and enrich the story of this coastal village. Perhaps your story is about the fishermen’s wives who mended the nets, the boarding house owners who received the first bathers, or the resistance fighters who risked their lives during the war. The form of the story is completely free: a poem, a letter, a short story or a personal memory.
All stories, if possible with an image, will be published here on the website and included in the collection about the history of Zandvoort!
Participate!
It would be great if you also participate to enrich the story of Zandvoort! The Zandvoorts Museum collects the stories, so that the people, the places and the events that have shaped Zandvoort become visible and audible.
All these stories become part of the museum collection.
Everyone can participate. The form of the story is completely free: write a short story, a poem, a letter or share a memory.
The history of Zandvoort
The history of Zandvoort is widely discussed through interactive collection management, organized walks through the old center of the village, and the heritage learning path for primary schools. In addition, the nostalgia of old Zandvoort can be found in the various period rooms of the museum.
The Museum
In addition to its own material, the Zandvoorts Museum manages the collection of the municipality of Zandvoort. This collection consists of a large number of objects that have to do with Zandvoort’s past. Objects, such as paintings, sculptures and images, that tell something about the past of Zandvoort; of people, known or less known, who once lived and worked in Zandvoort; of buildings that the municipality was rich in; of associations that provided a cultural connection and of amusements that provided relaxation both nationally and internationally and still do.
Subcollection
The subcollection of the Zandvoort photographer Bakels is unique, as is the collection of photos and related items surrounding the national car races first organized in 1939 on what was then a street circuit and, after the Second World War, on the current national race circuit in Zandvoort. It is impossible to exhibit all these objects. Nevertheless, all objects can be seen via our site, which also makes the Zandvoorts Museum special in this way.
Heritage and art museum
The Zandvoorts Museum is a heritage and art museum. There, residents and visitors are immersed in the history and cultural heritage of the fishing village to tourist village of Zandvoort.
