History museums in Sint-Niklaas

The Mercator Museum is dedicated to the history of cartography before and after Gerard Mercator, aka Gerard De Cremer (1512-1594). The journey begins with the Babylonians and goes through Greeks and Romans to the Middle Ages and Mercator's 16th century. Mercator's treasury displays a selection from

Museum SteM Zwijgershoek is a cultural history museum that portrays the history of Sint-Niklaas and the region from prehistory to today. The museum focusses on humans in relation to metal and stone, machinery and the body. Because of this, the story is applicable to a large part of Western Europe. T

Historical Pipe and Tobacco Museum shows the development in size and shape of the clay pipe from 1492 to the present. Among other things, the museum shows the evolution of the pipe and the pipe bowl: from the clay pipe over the porcelain pipe to the meerschaum pipe. Finally, in the 19th century, the

The Heemkundig Museum Nieuwkerken focuses on the most important facets of Wase folk life. There is also an archive of Nieuwkerken's family and club life.