page_title: Museum de Oude Wolden
section_title: Administration
hierarchical_section_title: Museum de Oude Wolden / Administration
caption_attribution_description: English: The logo of Museum de Oude Wolden.Nederlands: Het logo van Museum de Oude Wolden.
context_page_description: Museum de Oude Wolden, abbreviated as MOW, is a regional museum in the village of Bellingwolde in the Netherlands. The museum focuses on art and history of the regions of Oldambt and Westerwolde in the east of the province of Groningen.
  The museum opened on 10 August 1973. In the first decades, it primarily exhibited historical objects documenting everyday life. In the late 1990s, the museum started to exhibit artworks of artist collective De Ploeg and magic realist painter Lodewijk Bruckman. Since 2012, it has a permanent display of paintings by Bruckman and temporary exhibitions.
  The museum is an independent foundation that is mainly funded by the municipality of Bellingwedde. From 2013 to 2016, the museum had around 4,700 visitors per year. It is one of the lesser-visited museums in Groningen.
context_section_description: The museum is a foundation. It has board of three members, a small paid staff (1.7 full-time equivalent or FTE), and around 20 volunteers.
  Peter Yspeert has been the foundation chairman since 2017. Obby Veenstra has been the museum director (0.5 FTE) since 2010. In 2010, the municipality of Bellingwedde has guaranteed to fund 95% of the museum's budget for the next fifteen years. The annual costs for the municipality are 168,500 euro. The rest of the budget comes from other subsidies and (ticket) sales.
  The entrance fee for the museum is € 4.50, but it is free on Wednesdays, during special events, and for children under 18. In 2008, the annual total of 1,965 visitors included around 700 paying visitors. In 2014, a municipal council member claimed the amount of paying visitors was 50% in 2011, 35% in 2012, and 32% in 2013, and director Veenstra claimed it has been around 40% for years.
  In the period 2003–2012, the museum had around 1,800 to 3,200 visitors per year. In 2012, when the museum was closed for renovation from January to early July, it had 1,798 visitors. In 2013–2016, the museum had between 4,350 and 4,942 visitors per year. Although it is the most-visited museum in the eastern part of the province of Groningen, it is one of the lesser-visited museums in the entire province.
  De Oude Wolden is a member of Museumhuis Groningen (Groningen Museum House), which is an umbrella organization for museums and heritage institutions in the province of Groningen. From 2004 to 2009, the museum was registered in the Museumregister Nederland (Netherlands Museum Register), a quality mark for museums in the Netherlands, but the registration was not renewed for several years. The museum has again been registered since 2016.
caption: Logo of the museum
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