open air museum

Enkhuizen

relief

FLORYS PEETERS DE WILD

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IN WEELDE SIET TO

A relief on a wall in Enkhuizen. When looking for more information I found that the words 'In Weelde Siet Toe' more or less mean 'Beware of Luxury' or 'In Luxury, Look Out' and refer to a painting by 17th century Dutch painter Jan van Steen.

nostalgic sign

F. HEITZ JR. 

ITEMS FOR WEDDINGS & PARTY'S

Part of the Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen is an open air museum where you can walk through the streets of a village and picture yourself in the first half of the 20th century. Besides nice small houses , a church, and maybe the more obvious like for instance an old post office and a bakery, there was this place where people would go when they had to organise a party.

  

Not sure if the items displayed would look very exciting today, but well, why not? ;)

Linking to signs, signs.

gaper

The Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen has a nice collection of 'gapers'. A gaper is a stone or wooden head on the front of a building in the Netherlands, indicating that this building is a pharmacy. The literal translation would be 'yawner', as the figure is always displayed with an open mouth, and sometimes you can see a pill he has taken resting on his tongue. In fact he wasn't yawning, but opening his mouth to take medicine.

skipping ropes

Old fashioned jump ropes -or skipping ropes- for sale at the small outdoor market, in the Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen.

women's caps

We visited the Zuiderzee Museum in Enkhuizen today, and learned all there is to tell about the people who once lived on the shores of the Zuiderzee. The exhibitions focus on the themes of water, craft and communities. One of the rooms in the indoor museum showed a variety of folk costumes that people from several fishing towns used to wear in the past, and in some cases even wear today. The caps on the photo are made of lace and belong to the traditional folk costume for women. In Dutch a cap like this is called 'hul'.