Fantastic museum! It's a large outdoor museum that is easily walkable but there is also a tram that…read morecan take you around the entire museum. Little and older kids would also enjoy it. I could easily spend 3-4 hours here.

Open Air Museum Evenings! All week long!! Our little family had a blast making soap!!!…read more That's really the museum in a nutshell: plain family fun. The walk-throughs real dutch history time in architectural terms is such an experience. They have been able to assemble at this location a (sometimes telling) part of Dutch architectural history: original businesses, houses, apartments, windmills and even barracks. To give my review its Yelp-like fashion, the positive info need-to-know is that you can easily walk 10 km, enjoying medicinal gardens, original tram stops, tram rides, a smithery, a paper mill, and a bakery, and on and on. Some of these are still being run on water (paper and laundry). Parking you have to pay for, of course you can park your bike for nothing! And then here is my personal reflection and now that I have learned, I want to learn more. All fun stuff aside, about these barracks. No, they're not the ones that were built during WW2 (although those at Westerbork were used as well to house folks). These barracks were used for the people who arrived from Indonesia when it became independent again in 1949 and who were promised so much more support, never materializing until 30 years later (if that); honestly, as a half-Dutch person this makes me feel ashamed of our government policies. So I look hard to see the bad as well and to realize complacency has no place in a society. There is always room for improvement. Definitely recommend.

This is one of the most difficult and unfriendly museums I've ever been to. And I've been here…read morebefore over the years but before this renovation. Now they have this check in system that's sort of functional but not great. You get this small piece of paper with a code to use to get into rooms. Ridiculous. Open the museum and make it easy for everyone. Especially since you don't allow bags, where should women keep this ticket? Then they have this thing where you have to put stuff in a locker. But the lockers barely work and many people think theirs is locked but it isn't. So your purse isn't actually safe. Insane. Then the restrooms aren't well marked so the ladies room is coed because the men can't figure out where theirs is. Also ridiculous. And since it's all been recently renovated none of this is necessary. You can have well marked restrooms. You can have lockers that are better and safer. You can quit assuming people are bad, especially women who tend to carry purses, and let them carry their bag with them. It feels like this no bag rule is aimed at women, which isn't a good feeling, especially for the price you pay to enter. Take some of the space you have made for the coffee shop - using valuable museum space - and make a system when you check bags so people don't have to put them into lockers. Or take some of the museum shop space. You have plenty of room to be much more friendly to your guests. You should be much more client focused. Much. You are technically here for us. We help keep you open.