The Veenkoloniaal Museum in Veendam charts the history of peat extraction and the shipping and straw-cardboard industries that grew from it in the Groningen peat colonies. Its collection includes ship models, period interiors and everyday objects that bring the lives of peat diggers and bargemen to life. The museum is housed in a characteristic 19th-century building beside the Winkler Prins Park.
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The Veenkoloniaal Museum showcases artworks by Latvian artists from Tukums.
Lodewijk Verduin explores the life and literary legacy of writer Nanne Tepper through years of research into his letters and personal world.
The Veenkoloniaal Museum showcases artworks by Latvian artists from Tukums.
A lecture exploring the life of Jan van Oost, an Indonesian boy enslaved and brought to Veendam in the nineteenth century, one of the first people of colour in the Dutch peat regions.
Regional-historical book market featuring around six antiquarian booksellers at the Veenkoloniaal Museum.
The Veenkoloniaal Museum showcases a retrospective of visual artist Anja Jager, a native of Hoogezand-Sappemeer in the northern Netherlands.
The Veenkoloniaal Museum reunites 12 monumental paintings that represented the Netherlands at the 1935 Brussels World's Fair, displayed together for the first time in 85 years.
An exhibition exploring the life and art of Willem Barend van Marle, a 20th-century Groningen painter rediscovered after decades of obscurity.
Free museum visit and guided city walk in Veendam on Open Monumentendag, departing at 14:00.
Twelve monumental agricultural paintings from the Dutch pavilion at the 1935 Brussels World's Fair are reunited for the first time in 85 years at the Veenkoloniaal Museum.