Packages
If you are looking for a guided tour of the Zaanse Schans, a boat tour on the Zaan, lunch with a view of the windmills, a bicycle trip through the Dutch polders, or a guided tour combined with a visit to the museum, then take a look at all the options presented here.
Packages at the Zaanse Schans
Typically Dutch
Guided tour of the Zaanse Schans
> 10 people
Take in the world-famous Dutch landscape during a walk with a tour guide along the Zaanse Schans. Visit a windmill and discover traditional Dutch crafts such as sailcloth weaving and cheese making.
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours | Daily
Price per person:
Dutch-speaking guide €11,50 | Other languages €13
Includes: guided tour of the Zaanse Schans, admission to a windmill and the Weaver’s House, visit to a cheese maker.
Typically Dutch Plus
Guided tour of the Zaanse Schans plus boat trip
> 10 people
Add a boat trip with Windmill Cruises to the ‘Typically Dutch’ package. On board, you will hear all about the history of the windmills and the rich industrial past of the Zaan region.
Duration: approx. 2 hours | Daily
Price per person:
Dutch-speaking guide | Adults €18,50 | Children aged 4 to 11 years €16,50
Other languages | Adults €20 | Children aged 4 to 11 years €18
Included: guided tour of the Zaanse Schans, admission to a windmill and the Weaver’s House, visit to cheese maker, boat trip with Windmill Cruises
Zaans Museum lunchtime package
Zaans Museum & De Kraai restaurant
> 10 people
Experience the rich history of the Zaan region in the Zaans Museum. Visit the Verkade Experience where you are transported back to the chocolate and biscuit factory of the early twentieth century, and where the original machines are still churning away. Complete your visit with a sumptuous lunch at De Kraai restaurant on the Zaanse Schans. We have a special ‘yummy’ package for children.
Duration: approx. 2.5 hours | Daily
Price per person:
Adults €26.95 | Children aged 12 to 17 years €22.95 | Children aged 4 to 11 years €15.95 | Museum pass holders €16.95
Includes: admission to the Zaans Museum, lunch at De Kraai restaurant: vegetable soup, pancake of choice, coffee/tea, fresh fruit. Lunch for children up to 11 years: pancake to decorate, soda, ice cream.
Zaanse Schans tasting session
Dutch delicacies & home-made liqueurs
> 10 people
The food industry made the Zaan region world-famous. Experience the history of the food industry in the Zaans Museum and make a customized Verkade chocolate bar. You can then enjoy a tasting session complete with traditional Dutch delicacies at the Zaanse Schans. Taste liquor at the paint mill*, traditional Dutch cakes and biscuits at the bakery museum and a pancake at De Kraai restaurant.
* Children receive a glass of lemonade.
Duration: approx. 2.5 hours | Daily
Price per person: Adults €37.50 | Children 4-17 years € 27.50
Includes: Zaanse Schans Card (including admission to all museums), tasting sessions at various locations around the Zaanse Schans.
Chocolate Experience
Zaans Museum & Cocoa lab
>10 people
Indulge your sweet tooth! At the Zaans Museum you will discover how the Verkade girls made the most delicious chocolate and biscuits and design a wrapper for a customized bar of Verkade chocolate. Get a hot chocolate in the Museum Café and then take a stroll through the typically Dutch landscape of the Zaanse Schans.
Duration: approx. 2 hours | October to February, daily
Price per person: Adults €15 | Children aged 4 to 17 years €11.50 | Museum pass holders €5
Includes: admission to the Zaans Museum, Verkade chocolate bar with DIY wrapper and hot chocolate
Extra options at the Zaanse Schans
Lunch/dinner
Workshops
– Soap-making at the soap works
– Traditional Dutch games
Zaandam packages
Tsaar Peter Tour
Guided Tour Tsar Peter House
> 10 people
Discover the Russian history of Zaandam. Visit the Tsar Peter House in Zaandam, where Tsar Peter (Peter the Great) lodged for seven days in 1697. Built in 1632 in the Golden Agee, the Tsar Peter House in Zaandam is one of the oldest wooden houses in the Netherlands. With this short stay, the Tsar made this little wooden house famous across the world. During the tour in the Czaar Peterhuisje you will hear everything about the visit of the tsar to the Zaanse shipyards and his stay in the wooden house.
Duration: approx. 1 hours | Tuesdays to Sundays
Price per person: Adults €8 | Children aged 4 to 17 years €7.50 | Museum pass holders €5,50
Included: admission to the Tsar Peter House, guided tour Tsar Peter House and an attention
Expandable with a boat trip from Amsterdam CS to Zaandam
City tour of Zaandam
Guided Monet tour & Tsar Peter House
> 10 people
The world-famous French painter Claude Monet stayed in Zaandam for four months in 1871. While here, he produced twenty-five paintings and nine sketches. This walk through the centre of Zaandam follows in the footsteps of Monet. A guide will lead you from the Tsar Peter House, past the Blue House (the subject of one of his paintings), to the MonetAtelier, which displays reproductions of all Monet’s paintings of the Zaan region.
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours | Sundays 2:30-3:30 PM
Price per person: All ages, on request
Includes: guided Monet tour, admission to the Tsar Peter House, admission to the MonetAtelier
Monet boat tour
MonetAtelier, Zaans Museum, and boat trip
>10 people
See the Zaan region through the eyes of Claude Monet!! The famous French painter stayed in Zaandam for four months in 1871. While here, he produced twenty-five paintings and nine sketches. Visit the MonetAtelier, where you can watch a film about Monet in Zaandam while enjoying a cup of coffee or tea, amidst reproductions of all Monet’s Zaan-region paintings, and then enjoy a boat trip from the centre of Zaandam to the Zaanse Schans where you’ll visit the Zaans Museum and see Claude Monet’s painting The Voorzaan and the Westerhem. Return journey by train or bus (at your own expense).
Duration: approx. 3 hours | Sundays starting at 10:00 AM
Price per person: On request
Includes: cup of coffee/tea at MonetAtelier, admission to MonetAtelier and Zaans Museum, boat trip from Zaandam to the Zaanse Schans
For kids
Children’s party
Celebrate your birthday at the Zaans Museum
Put on work clothing and get to work at Verkade! Imagine you’re a Verkade girl, a biscuit baker, or a chocolate expert. Discover how tricky it is to keep the digital biscuit oven running, and test your dexterity with the games.
School trips
Take your class to the Zaanse Schans! Discover traditional crafts, visit a windmill or discover how the most delicious cookies and chocolates are made at the Verkade Experience.