Museums & Art Galleries

Gelderland’s cultural landscape features the Kröller-Müller Museum, home to the world's second-largest Van Gogh collection and an extensive sculpture garden. History is preserved at the Netherlands Open Air Museum and the Airborne Museum 'Hartenstein', which details the WWII Battle of Arnhem. The region also hosts medieval strongholds like Loevestein and Ammersoyen Castles. Specialized collections include the World Soil Museum in Wageningen and the Nederlands Tegelmuseum, showcasing centuries of Dutch tile craftsmanship alongside contemporary sculpture galleries and archaeological exhibits.

Museums & Art Galleries — Map

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Netherlands Open Air Museum Arnhem

The Netherlands Open Air Museum is a national open-air museum located in Arnhem.

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Kröller-Müller Museum

The Kröller-Müller Museum is a national art museum and sculpture garden, located in the Hoge Veluwe National Park in Otterlo in the…

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Valkhof museum

The Valkhof Museum is an archaeology and art museum in Nijmegen, Netherlands.

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Loevestein Castle

Monumental castle and a former prison for political prisoners where Hugo Grotius was being kept. Now it is a home to a medieval museum.

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Airborne Museum 'Hartenstein'

The Airborne Museum ‘Hartenstein’ in Oosterbeek, The Netherlands is dedicated to the Battle of Arnhem in which the Allied Forces attempted…

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Ammersoyen Castle

Ammersoyen Castle is located in Ammerzoden in the Bommelerwaard region in the province of Gelderland, the Netherlands.

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Huis Bergh Castle

Huis Bergh is a castle in 's-Heerenberg city and is one of the largest castles in the Netherlands.

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Africa Museum

The Africa Museum is a museum in Berg en Dal in the Netherlands. The museum on the outskirts of the city of Nijmegen is a complex with…

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The Netherlands Water Museum

Interactive museum dealing with any thinkable issue related to water. Fresh, entertaining, educating.

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Erve Kots

An open-air museum in Lievelde showcasing traditional Saxon farmhouse life, featuring an on-site brewery and a pancake restaurant.

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World Soil Museum

The World Soil Museum displays physical examples of soil profiles representing major soil types of the world, from the volcanic ash soils…

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Hofje van Mevrouw van Aerden

The Hofje van Mevrouw van Aerden is a museum and former hofje in Leerdam, Netherlands, on the Kerkstraat.

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Het Depot

A sculpture gallery in Wageningen featuring permanent and temporary exhibitions of contemporary sculpture housed within three historical buildings and an arboretum.

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Stadskasteel

Located in the 16th-century Maarten van Rossum house in Zaltbommel, this museum focuses on local history and the life of the famous Renaissance warlord.

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Nederlands Tegelmuseum

Located in Otterlo, this museum houses one of the world's largest collections of Dutch wall tiles and tile pictures, spanning from the 14th century to the present.

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De Casteelse Poort

A local history museum in Wageningen situated on the site of a former 16th-century castle, detailing the city's heritage and the 1945 German capitulation.

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Gelders Geologisch Museum

A geological museum in Velp specializing in minerals, fossils, and the geological history of the Veluwe region.

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Katharinenhof Kranenburg

The Katharinenhof in Kranenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, was used from 1446 until 1802 as the home of a convent of sisters of the…

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Grenslandmuseum

Housed in Dinxperlo's oldest building from 1787, this museum documents the history of the Dutch-German border, focusing on smuggling and customs history.

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Stadsmuseum Doetinchem

A local museum showcasing the development of Doetinchem through archaeological finds, regional art, and historical scale models of the city.

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