Eindhoven Museum

For example, there are demonstrations of cooking on open fire, of games played in the Middle Ages and groups of school children are allowed to spend the night in the stables.

The museum also arranges historically themed corporate and family outings outside of opening hours.

The first ten years were spent slowly and painstakingly building an Iron Age village with help of many volunteers and local unemployed people.

Officially called "For 2 Moons", it involved a small group (including the director Anneke Boonstra) withdrawing from civilization for two months to live life as it was in the Iron Age.

Towards the end of the 1990s the museum began receiving European subsidies, allowing it to double in size and add a whole new theme on the new grounds: the Middle Ages.