Drents Museum
Open
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Friday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Address
Brink 1, 9400 AC Assen, Netherlands

Drents Museum

Brink 1, 9400 AC Assen, Netherlands

RATING (4.4)

Reviews

Floris van Hal
Floris van Hal
a month ago

An interesting museum to have a look. The 'dying beautifully' exhibition was on when I visited. The pieces they had on Pompeii and Herculaneum was put together really tightly with nice use of space, lights and some interesting information. The permanent collection is interesting as well, though small. The more artsy collections (Rauch / self portraits) did nothing for me. The museum building itself is very beautiful and it is worth a visit if you happen to be in Assen.

Ararat Mnatsakanyan
Ararat Mnatsakanyan
5 months ago

Beautiful exhibition about Armenian history. Even though there was no queue but the museum was pretty full and I would recommend getting tickets in advance.

Roca
Roca
9 months ago

Visited the museum’s exhibition UNDER THE SPELL OF MOUNT ARARAT - Treasures from ancient Armenia. Beautifully curated, great Stone and Bronze Age artifacts, up to Christianity (331 AD, first Christian state). Tradition has it that the Armenians are the direct descendants of Hayk, a great-great-grandson of Noah, whose famous Ark landed on the flanks of Mount Ararat. There is a wooden relic from the Ark from the oldest cathedral in the world: Etchmiadzin Cathedral in Armenia.

Anna Logvinova
Anna Logvinova
a month ago

We have visited amazing exhibition 1. POMPEI and Herculaneum 2. Drentse veenlijken 3. Poppenhuis Everything is amazing starting with the museum building. Almost a thousand years ago, Cistercian nuns laid the first stone of the Drents Museum. In 1259 they received permission from the bishop of Utrecht to build a new monastery on the site where the museum now stands The Statenzaal is without doubt the most beautiful room in the Drents Museum. The hall is lavishly decorated. Visitors to the Drents Museum nowadays enter through a coach house from the end of the 18th century Architect Erick van Egeraat deliberately chose the color white for the new building of the Drents Museum. White is neutral, so that the colorful collection of the museum comes into its own. White also provides an exciting contrast to the historic buildings of the museum The floating stairs in the new building of the Drents Museum weigh 16,000 kilos each and are only attached to the upper and lower floors. The stairs were first tested in the factory in Dokkum My favorite exhibition is Poppenhuis In the 18th century, it was a hobby for rich women to make dollhouses. A doll's house in those days was not a child's toy, but a serious matter a visitor can listen to a lecture by Barbara van Lier's daughter and gossip and slander in the girls' room or smell freshly baked bread in the kitchen. This is how the public imagines itself in Drenthe and Assen in the 18th century

Witold Kepinski
Witold Kepinski
a year ago

Viva la Frida! - Life and art of Frida Kahlo. Kahlo (1907-1954) was a Mexican painter 🧑‍🎨 known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of 🇲🇽 Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk 🖼 art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy.

Open
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Friday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Address
Brink 1, 9400 AC Assen, Netherlands