Flood museum — Attraction in Schouwen-Duiveland

From outside looks like a small museum, even after entering it looks like a small one. Then further you walk more new rooms you will discover at the end most probbaly you will be suprised just like I was how big the place is. They have a lot of materials collected from the big flood lot of videos and news papers and objects from that time. It was also nice to see that it was not only abou the flood itself but also showed that time how people lived what did they used, I loved that they even set up a house built in that era. They have some more and some not so interesting interactive "games" in the last room, definitelly it was refresing. Since I do not speak the language unfortu atelly I could not enjoy everything 100%. Some videos were not even subtitled also some older information table was not in english. But I could see that all new room has translated tables and all information are there in english and german too. So overall I loved it. It was informative, also interactive and also eye opening. So recommended! :) (I havent seen any tables that pictures can not be made but if thats the case please let me know I will...

A must for anyone visiting Zeeland! Really informative, but most of all fun! Having travelled all the way from England that morning, I wasn't expecting the kids to get much out of this, but they (and the adults too) loved completing the cards as they went around, and it really brought it all to life for them. The displays were all well laid out and mostly in English (as well as Dutch obviously!). There is a cafe inside the museum and a restaurant next door - both look nice, but we didn't use either, so can't comment on them. I loved that the museum was housed in the original concrete blocks used to dam the last breach, and the angled roofs was very cool. It took us about 2 hours to get around, which was just about right for the kids. There are some fun interactive games in the last block, just to...

A fascinating journey through the calamity of the flood of 1953 and its impact on communities, survivors and the land and the relief effort.

Fittingly, the museum is situated in the four caissons (left over from those prepared for the Mulberry Habours post D-Day) that were brought in to fill the final remaining breach some nine months after the disaster.

These provide a sense of the scale of the task when you realise that the four or five metres visible of the caissons is only about a quarter of their height.

There is the saying that, whilst God took six days to create the world, it took the Dutch longer to create the Netherlands. This museum serves to remind that their task...