What to do and see in Hellevoetsluis, South Holland Province: The Best Museums

Once an identification mark in the North Sea, helping seamen to establish their position at sea while at the same time warning seamen of dangerous sand banks along Zeeland's coast". Due to modern navigational aids, the lightship is no longer active at sea and is now a museum ship located in the harbour of Hellevoetsluis.

Zr. Ms. Buffel (HW 12, A 884) is a Dutch ironclad built by the British shipyard Napier & Sons from Glasgow, Scotland (July 23, 1868). After having serviced a period as a lodging-and storage ship De Buffel now is a museum ship. The Buffalo is a museum ship, worthwhile for anyone visiting it. Who goes on board, steps more than 145 years back in time. De Buffel is located at the Koningskade 2 Hellevoetsluis

Go on an adventure with us tens of millions of years back to the time of the dinosaurs. Or to the last ice age where you are shivering from the cold, coming face to face with a life-sized mammoth, cave bear or saber-toothed cat. Also outside in the park you will experience the history and climb in a MIG2 and combat helicopter or imagine yourself as a scientist when you search for real fossils. History is brought to life on Historyland!

The National Fire Brigade Museum of the Netherlands shows, as part of the foundation National Security Institute (NVI = Nationaal Veiligheidsinstituut), the history of the fire brigade, not only as a technical story but also its culture and social history over more than four hundred years, from 1550 until today.The National Fire Brigade Museum housed in two former naval buildings, the coopers shop (barrel factory) and the great store's room, dating from the 18th century. In our exhibition area of approx. 3,000 m² we show the historical extinguishing equipment, starting with simple leather buckets, to the modern fire trucks of the last century.

Het Stadsmuseum Hellevoetsluis stelt zich ten doel om de historie van de voormalige marinehaven Hellevoetsluis en de agrarische dorpen Nieuw-Helvoet en Nieuwenhoorn in al zijn facetten te bewaren. Het Stadsmuseum beheert een grote collectie foto's en documentatie over talloze onderwerpen. Voor vragen over de geschiedenis van b.V. Winkelcentrum De Struytse Hoeck, de vuurtoren of de vlasteelt in de Nieuwenhoornse polder bent u bij het Stadsmuseum op het juiste adres.