Museon

Museon is a museum for science and culture in The Hague, Netherlands. It has collections in the domains of geology, biology, archaeology, history, science and ethnology.

Origin

The museum was initiated in 1904 by the newspaper director Frits van Paasschen, who wanted to establish a museum where children could learn about industry. Although science and technology became important domains for the museum, the original idea has never been realized. Under the museum’s first director, the geologist Herman van Cappelle, the collection policy moved towards natural history and ethnology.

Van Paasschen’s idea of a museum with a strong education mission however was implemented from the very beginning, expressed by the museum’s previous name ‘Museum for Education’. From the start the museum organised lessons for school classes, based on the visual tools that are provided by the museum’s collection. Around 1910 the museum was also the first organisation in The Netherlands that programmed educational movies, an initiative that led to the foundation of the first school cinema in the country.

Municipal museum

Starting as a private museum the ‘Museum for Education’ was taken over by the municipality of The Hague in 1920. In 1933, biologist Niko Tinbergen, provided the museum with a collection of objects from the Inuit in Greenland. The museum moved several times, until the municipality had its present building built in 1985, by the design by architect WG Quist. The name Museon also dates from 1985. In 1997 the museum was privatised again.

Mission

Museon hosts educational exhibitions and programmes to communicate with a broad audience. A large part of all visitors are school children. Museon aims at transferring knowledge about man and his relation with nature and culture and provides easily accessible information about topical themes and developments in science and society. Currently the collection counts around 273,000 objects.

References

Шаблон:Reflist Kockelkorn, Hub. Geschiedenis van het Museum voor het Onderwijs. Den Haag, 1985

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Tijs
30 December 2018
Fun stuff for kids. Lotsa buttons. The live science experiments are worth a wait (few times a day, for little kids)
Alvaro P.
11 January 2014
Wildlife photographer of the year is a short but inspiring exhibition of our planet's life. Very recommendable!
Rommert Crépin
9 November 2015
Always love to come, different exhibitions and always something to do for the kids
Tamara Eelsing
27 August 2016
Great exposition for kids!!!
Don Freijters
3 February 2024
Interesting museum, especially for children
Gerlof du Bois
20 September 2014
Veel verschillende tentoonstellingen, voor elk wat wils. Perfect voor kinderen.
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