When: Daily, ongoing
Cost: Entrance to Zaans Museum
In the TexLAB of the Zaans Museum you roll up your sleeves. Get inspired by the beautiful patterns from the Zaans Stikwerk and get creative with fabric, needle and thread in various assignments. In the TexLAB, you discover that you can still make beautiful things with old textiles.
Suitable for Age: 8+
Duration: about 20 minutes
Get to know the beautiful patterns of Zaans Stikwerk and get creative with pencil and embossing pen. Use the different shapes on the stencil to create your own pattern. Of course, you may take your creation home after your visit.
Suitable for age: 8+
Duration: about 20 minutes
Just like the Zaankanters from the eighteenth and nineteenth century, make something new from old textiles, such as a beautiful bag from leftover fabric. Cut, sew and decorate your own bag according to the pattern and give used textile a new life.
Suitable for: All ages
Duration: As long or short as you like
Roll up your sleeves and embroider with us! In this group embroidery, you will add a shape, design or border to the mesh. This is how we create our own embroidery wall together.
Right at the heart of the museum, you will find the Verkade Experience, a treat for young and old! Here, you will be transported back to the chocolate and biscuit factory of the early twentieth century, where the original machines are still churning away and the history of Verkade comes alive.
Have you always wanted to work in a chocolate and biscuit factory? Then take the chance now! Test your dexterity with the games at the Verkade Experience. Put on your work clothes and pretend to be a ‘Verkade girl’, a chocolate expert, or a biscuit baker. Will you get promoted to director, or will you be sacked?
Get a chocolate bar of choice at the ticket desk of the Zaans Museum for €2,75 and create a custom Verkade chocolate bar wrapper using your own design and choice of colours. When you’re happy with your design, use the mini packaging machine to wrap your chocolate bar in your own wrapper.
In the Verkade Treasury you can see the best and longest-running marketing campaign of the previous century: the Verkade Albums. Between 1903 and 1940, and between 1965 and 1995, Verkade published 35 picture card albums, all written by renowned Dutch authors.
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Ask for the treasure hunt for the Verkade Experience at the ticket desk. Take part in all kinds of fun activities while the biscuit and chocolate machines are working at full-steam. There is a treasure hunt for children between the ages of 6 and 8 and one for children between the ages of 8 and 12.
Price: €1 for the treasure hunt
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Create your own design for a Verkade chocolate bar wrapper at the Verkade Experience. Then wrap your chocolate bar in your custom design wrapper using the mini packaging machine!
Price: admission to the Zaans Museum + €2.75 for the chocolate bar
Available at the cash desk of the Zaans Museum