Cruquius Museum

North Holland · Netherlands

Cruquius Museum, Netherlands
Photo: Caspar, CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
Spring through autumn
Budget
$
Accessibility
limited
Coordinates
Open in maps

A museum in a 19th-century steam pumping station that once helped drain a large lake to reclaim the Haarlemmermeer polder. Its immense beam engine illustrates the scale of Dutch water management.

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