Get to know the costumes, the beautifully decorated cotton fabrics, sashes, printed with colourful flowers and other exotic motifs, from faraway countries, brought by the United East India Company. Understand why widows wore different clothes from newlyweds.

Learn about the history of the language, Hylpers, which is distinct from the other Frisian language variations and dialects. Indeed, Hindeloopers used to have little contact with other Frisians. They had, through trade, more contact with foreign trading partners. As a result, there are words in Hindeloopers that have English or Scandinavian origins.

Get impressed by the world-famous Hindelooper painting that was, and is, applied in bedsteads, furniture, coat hangers, trunks, egg cups and other utensils, often even on walls. Swaying, cheerful-looking patterns and themes: flowers, leaves and birds in reddish-brown, blue, white or green as the background and ochre tones, white, blue and red for the decorations.

Get to know the flute ships on which the Hindeloopers sailed to the trading towns on the Baltic Sea. Learn about the history of the Likhúsjes where the wives of the captains, with their children, lived during the time their husbands were at sea. This way, they did not have to heat and clean the large, richly decorated house.

Museum Hindeloopen is undergoing a metamorphosis. The building will be rigorously renovated, with a new entrance and the museum will have a totally new exhibition concept.

Museum Hindeloopen: because the history of this city fascinates