What to do and see in Marken, North Holland Province: The Best Things to do

Guided tours on the former peninsula Marken, just a half hour travelling from Amsterdam. Experience how the stories come to life in the beautiful authentic scenery of Marken. Reservations can be made by mail of phone. The tours take about an hour and the costs are per group with a maximum of twenty five guests.

Flood Walk 1916. The wind reaches force 10 in the eventing of 13 januari 1916. Marken is wrecked and 16 people perish. Join the Walk en relive the devastating force of the water. The Walk starts en ends at the Museum on de Kerkbuurt.

Woodenshoefactory on the isle land of Marken

The artwork (The Wave) is also a sofa. To muse, to meet and to remember the power of water. ‘Collaboration’, ‘solidarity’ and ‘victory’ together with the sad side of the disaster; ‘the cry’, ‘despair’ but also ‘the helping hand’ are coming together in The Wave. This memorial has the shape of a boat, and thus symbolically incorporated the significance of Noah’s Ark.

At the harbour of Marken you will find a ‘small museum house’. It’s designed as a old original House in Marken. Here you can see the period furniture and decor and you can see how the people from Marken lived in the early days. This tiny house is exactly furnished as how a Marken fishing family lived there until about 1932. The walls of the house are covered with colorful signs and prints.

The lighthouse ‘Paard van Marken’ (English: Horse of Marken) was built in 1839 by J. Valk. A primitive tower had been on the location since the early 18th century; the current lighthouse is declared a national monument in 1970. The tower 16 meters tall and has a light range of 16,7 Km. Every night it’s light shines over the IJsselmeer.