Museonder — Attraction in Ede

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...

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...

Interesting display of the nature evolution in the park: plants, inserts, animals... Some impressive objects including the huge horn of giant deer (Irish elks), giant beetle (Stag Beetle), a ~20 meter tree trunk that came from where they built this museum, and interesting rout display on the sky. There is also a place mimicking earthquake, which scared me when I walked passing it without realizing the...