page_title: Zaans Museum
section_title: Verkade Experience
hierarchical_section_title: Zaans Museum / Locations and exhibitions / Verkade Experience
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Claude Monet, De Voorzaan en de Westerhem, 1871 (collectie Zaans Museum)
context_page_description: Zaans Museum is a museum in Zaandam, Netherlands, located at the Zaanse Schans. It opened in 1998 to preserve and protect the heritage of the Zaan area. In 2009, the museum was extended with the addition of the Verkade Experience.
  In 2016, the Zaans Museum opened three locations with living history at the Zaanse Schans: the Cooperage, the Jisper House, and the Weaver’s House. Another annex of the Zaans Museum is the Tsar Peter House in the centre of Zaandam.
  The museum houses cultural-historical and regional collections examining the residential and industrial culture. In 2015, the museum acquired a painting from the Zaan period of the French impressionist painter Claude Monet, entitled 'The Voorzaan and the Westerhem'.
  The Zaans Museum is both physically connected with the Zaanse Schans and connected in terms of its exhibits. It sets itself the objective of offering extra depth to tourist visits to the Zaanse Schans by linking the archetypal image of 'Holland' with the factual history of the Zaan region.
context_section_description: The collection in the Verkade Experience is made up of the company collection of the Verkade family. This collection comprises photos, displays, packaging, posters, and three working production lines for chocolate, biscuits, and tea light candles. There is also a 'treasury' where the original watercolours for the Verkade picture-card albums are on display.
caption: Claude Monet, De Voorzaan en de Westerhem, 1871 (collection Zaans Museum)
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