A museum village
Full of stories
Be inspired by the past
Discover the stories and traditions of the past at De Locht. The museum breathes the atmosphere of a small traditional North Limburg village. A museum village full of stories about how people lived in the countryside, but also what clothes they wore, what they ate and how it was grown and prepared.
Activities agenda
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Sunday September 13th
Potato day
A day full of experience, taste, and tradition, with the potato in the starring role! Come to Museum Village De Locht and enjoy a fun day full of activities, with music and, of course, delicious food. As you stroll around,…
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Sunday September 13th
Making potato men
We are going to make something with potatoes, because today is Potato Day. Potato men! That is a fun craft activity. You will need a number of supplies for it, such as markers, skewers, toothpicks, googly eyes, pipe cleaners, bottle…
Plan your visit
Prices and opening times
View our current opening times and admission fees and plan your visit.
Food and drinks
In our restaurant De Hoeve we serve, along coffee and vlaai (pie), various drinks and lunch dishes.
Feel at home
Feel at home
Our museum village is fully maintained, managed and organised by volunteers, our residents; people who love to come here and feel at home at De Locht. Register as a volunteer and discover how you can contribute to our museum village full of stories. Whether you want to be a guide, create exhibitions or prefer to be active behind the scenes.
Your efforts make a difference!
Museum village full of stories
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Weaver
Living in the countryside meant self-sufficiency, including your clothing. Made of wool and/or linen. Sheep provided wool, and the flax plant (after intensive processing) produced linen. Weavers are a very old profession. This is an ancient technique for making textiles from threads. To weave, a number of threads are stretched parallel to the loom. These…
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Cooper
A cooperage is a workshop where the cooper makes wooden tubs, barrels or casks. But also buckets, cheese moulds, dishes, milk and beer jugs, tubs and bacon tubs, and churns. The former kitchen equipment came partly from the cooper. The invention of making a barrel from one to two tapered planks comes from the Celtic…
Experiences
“Nice and relaxed museum. Great that you can and may come close to everything. A true gem in the Netherlands”
Dick and Cindy
“Very surprising! Informative and back to our youth. A lot to see!”
Marcel and Esther
“Really nice museum. The seventies expo brings back youth memories. Nice to review everything from our own history.”
Suzan