We went back to the Arnhem open air museum for the first time in a few years. It remains an excellent open air museum, from the vintage trams riding you around to the historic houses displaying areas from all over The Netherlands and over the ages (including the Dutch Indies) or the quality of the food and drink. A great place to visit for hours and even then you haven't seen everything. Excellent! read more

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

Open Air Museum Evenings! All week long!! Our little family had a blast making soap!!! 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. read more

As others have said, it's kind of like the Williamsburg (USA) of The Netherlands without all the historic reenactments. I wish we could have spent more hours here as there is so much to see, but we had to leave before we'd had a chance to visit each of the different areas. The museum is really clean, the buildings are nice, the staff were friendly, the restaurant was tasty, parking was ample, etc. We'd definitely come back here again. read more

This is similar to going to Williamsburg in the U.S. There are historic buildings and vignette set-ups all around the park for various times in Dutch history, various places & various industries of the Netherlands. This requires at least 5 hours to get around in. We were there for 5 & still didn't see everything. There is an amazing Collections collection that is mind-blowing. There is a tram that will take you around. We wanted to walk, but for some reason the map was very confusing to us and we couldn't figure out where the walking paths actually were or which directions were the best way to go. Probably why we didn't get to everything. I would recommend this if you like walking, history & folk parks! I think if I was a kid, I might be bored. There isn't a lot for them to get into unless they are already into history. They just don't have the experience to appreciate some of the things that are there to see. read more

Nederlands Openluchtmuseum - Openluchtmuseum - Museums Near Me - Arnhem, GE

Relatively large museum park. Pretty expensive though at 15,70 per adult. I thought the Moluk pavilion was nice, giving a impression of how Moluk (ex -military families) people had to live in camps. Also nice was the street car remise and old street cars displayed there. The rest is sort of lots of the same, old dutch windmills, houses and shops. A dime a dozend. read more

I have to confess to having a particular liking for open air museums but even so this is one of the best and I'm sure anyone would find it interesting and enjoyable. The aim is to show the everyday lives of ordinary Dutch people by re-creating the farmhouses, workshops, churches etc in one park and the buildings that have been collected here seem very well chosen for the purpose and well fitted out inside. Best of all though are the windmills! Lets face it those of us from outside of the Netherlands still have an old fashioned association of Holland with windmills and there is a great collection of windmills here laid around a waterway and made to look very natural and authentic. The electric trams which you can take around the large park are fun too and make you wish we still had trams. Altogether a very worthwhile and memorable day out. read more