All profession & craft museums to visit in North Holland

Discover the skills and trades that have shaped societies at 20 profession and craft museums in North Holland. These museums highlight the history and techniques of various professions and crafts.

Are you interested in the art of craftsmanship? These are the must-visit profession and craft museums in North Holland:

  1. Zuiderzee Museum1

    Zuiderzee Museum

     Enkhuizen
    The Zuiderzee Museum in Enkhuizen brings stories of the people who once lived on the shores of the Zuiderzee to life. Discover the everyday life round the Zuiderzee as it was before the Afsluitdijk (the great IJsselmeer Barrier Dam) turned the former inland sea into what we now know as the IJsselmee
  2. Online discount!Heineken Experience2

    Heineken Experience

     Amsterdam
    The Heineken Experience is housed in the former Heineken brewery in 1876. The building has served as a Heineken brewery until 1988. Visitors are introduced to more than 150 years of craftsmanship. In a show, Heineken shows that it is the most international beer in the world. In a 4D experience visit
  3. Museum of the Mind | Dolhuys3

    Museum of the Mind | Dolhuys

     Haarlem
    Museum of the Mind has two locations; one in Haarlem and one in Amsterdam. In the museum in Haarlem you can discover more about your own mind and those of others in an interactive way. In Amsterdam you can see exhibitions with outsider art, in which artists show their imaginative inner world. In th
  4. Online discount!Red Light Secrets: Museum of Prostitution4

    Red Light Secrets: Museum of Prostitution

     Amsterdam
    The Museum of Prostitution illustrates the life of prostitutes that work in the Red Light District, as well as illustrate the life of courtesans in brothels.
  5. Cheese Museum5

    Cheese Museum

     Amsterdam
    In the Amsterdam Cheese Museum visitors can relive the history of cheese making and experience the unique flavor of Dutch cheese.
  6. Museum Kaap Skil6

    Museum Kaap Skil

     Oudeschild
    Museum Kaap Skil is housed in a modern glass building with a shell of wooden beams. The museum is dedicated to Texel and the sea. The collection includes beachcombing objects and dive finds, as well as paintings and prints. In addition, the museum has the largest maritime model in the world.
  7. Dutch Cheese Museum7

    Dutch Cheese Museum

     Alkmaar
    The Dutch Cheese Museum is housed in the weigh house of Alkmaar. The museum illustrates the past and present of the manufacturing of dairy products on the farm and in the factory. The whole process is covered, from the milking of the cow to cheesemaking itself. The museum also illustrates trade and
  8. Bakkerijmuseum De Oude Bakkerij8

    Bakkerijmuseum De Oude Bakkerij

     Medemblik
    Bakkerijmuseum De Oude Bakkerij is a museum dedicated to bakers and bakeries. The museum illustrates how bakers made and sold their products in the past century. The collection consists of machines, tools, forms and other objects related to bakery. The museum also exhibits objects related to the top
  9. Museum Het Schip9

    Museum Het Schip

     Amsterdam
    World-renowned expressionist building "Het Schip" ("the ship") is the most famous work by Amsterdam School architect Michel de Klerk, which was completed in 1921. The museum located in the building is dedicated to the Amsterdam School, an architecture style. The former post office designed by the a
  10. Dutch Steam Engine Museum10

    Dutch Steam Engine Museum

     Medemblik
    The Dutch Steam Engine Museum shows, through working examples, the exciting history of the development of the steam engine. Steam engines played a major role in the Industrial Revolution. Most of the engines have since been replaced by other forms of power but fortunately we still have some of those
  11. Molen van Sloten - Kuiperijmuseum11

    Molen van Sloten - Kuiperijmuseum

     Amsterdam
    The Molen van Sloten – Kuiperijmuseum includes an original ‘poldermolen’ and a museum where visitors learn how barrels are made. The Molen van Sloten is a functioning ‘poldermolen’ and is the only mill in Amsterdam that is daily open to the public. It is a ‘stellingmolen’ with a backside that was re
  12. Bakkerijmuseum ‘In de Gecroonde Duyvekater’12

    Bakkerijmuseum ‘In de Gecroonde Duyvekater’

     Zaandam
    Bakery Museum "In de Gecroonde Duyvekater" dates back to 1658.
  13. House of Bols13

    House of Bols

     Amsterdam
    House of Bols takes visitors on a journey through the "World of flavor". All the senses are stimulated in the Hall of Taste and Genever Room, and visitors discover the secrets of 38 Bols liqueurs and Bols Genever.
  14. Museum of the Mind | Outsider Art14

    Museum of the Mind | Outsider Art

     Amsterdam
    Museum of the Mind is fascinated by the work of art inside your head. Because nothing is as diverse, unique, powerful and yet so fragile as the human mind. Through its art and cultural programmes, the museum helps to bring mental health and neurodiversity into the open. Museum van de Geest | Outside
  15. The Story of Edam Cheese15

    The Story of Edam Cheese

     Edam
    Always wanted to know why Edam is so famous? Henri Willig has built an experience in Edam where the glorious history of Edam cheese is told and where you can learn everything about Edam cheese from the past and also today. A nice outing for all ages. The experience is wheelchair accessible. Edam
  16. Museumwinkel Albert Heijn16

    Museumwinkel Albert Heijn

     Zaandam
    Museumwinkel Albert Heijn is an old grocery store. The museum exhibits the original furnishings and inventory. It illustrates grocery shopping in more than a century ago. Among other things, the museum exhibits jars with white and black candy, licorice, ‘suikerbrood’, rennet used for cheese and pepp
  17. Verhalenkamer Willibrordus / VVV / Tourist info17

    Verhalenkamer Willibrordus / VVV / Tourist info

     Heiloo
    The Willibrordus Storytelling Room is located on the Willibrordus Estate in Heiloo. The Story Room shows the timeline from the history to the present of psychiatry in general and the former psychiatric institution St. Willibrordus in particular. The collection consists of a number of objects and wal
  18. Museum De Dageraad18

    Museum De Dageraad

     Amsterdam
    Housing complex De Dageraad is the Amsterdam School in its purest form. Architects Michel de Klerk and Piet Kramer were commissioned to design all facets of the streetscape. In addition to the street facades, they also designed the rear facades and house plans. This led to gesamtkunstwerk in which b
  19. Online discount!Rembrandts Amsterdam Experience19

    Rembrandts Amsterdam Experience

     Amsterdam
    Rembrandt is perhaps one of the most famous painters in the world. Rembrandt lived in bustling Amsterdam of the 17th century. He was able to become quite successful and his studio grew into a true 'painter's empire'. Rembrandt was also a collector, he bought many exotic things, brought by merchants
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    Theepottenmuseum The TeaRat

     Amsterdam
    In a Victorian living room, host Martin Oudbier tells the story of the teapots that are exhibited in the museum.