Description of the attraction
Muzeon is a science and culture museum located in The Hague. Its exposition includes such sections as geology, biology, archeology, history and ethnology.
The history of the museum begins in 1904, when Fritz van Paaschen, the head of one of the Hague newspapers, decided to open a special "school" museum, where teachers could teach lessons or borrow visual aids. A special foundation "Education" was founded, and a few years later the Educational Museum was opened. In 1910, the museum was the first organization in the Netherlands to show educational films.
The museum's collections grew over time, and the museum moved from place to place several times. Since 1985, it has been housed in a building specially built for it. At the same time, the name "Muzeon" appeared, which translated from Greek means "temple of the muses".
Now the museum's depositories have collected about 273,000 exhibits. One of the pearls of the collection is the collection of household and cultural items of the Inuit (residents of Greenland), donated to the museum in 1933 by the famous biologist Niko Tinbergen. Another collection of national importance is a collection of drawings, documents, etc., relating to the period of Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies. The museum constantly hosts various thematic exhibitions.
The museum still considers education to be one of the main directions of its activity. A significant part of Muzeon's visitors are schoolchildren. During school holidays, the museum is open seven days a week.
The museum works in close cooperation with international museum organizations.
