A local museum or local history museum is a type of museum that shows the historical development of a place/region ( local history ) using exhibits. These museums usually maintain a collection of historic three-dimensional objects which are exhibited in displays. Such museums are often small in nature and generally have a low budget for their running costs. As such, many of the collections are compiled, cataloged, and interpreted by amateur historians as well as professionals.
8-665: Veenkoloniaal Museum ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈveːŋkoːloːniˌjaːl myˈzeːjʏm] ; English: "Peat-Colonial Museum") is a regional museum in the village of Veendam in the Netherlands . The museum shows not only the history of the peat district in Groningen . Situated in a monumental building dating from 1911 the Veenkoloniaal Museum exhibits the development of the Groninger Peat district but also
16-568: A governmental defined unit such as a town , city , county , or parish or they can cover an area defined within the museum's mission. In the United States while some museums may be part of the local government or receive funding from them in some way. However, most local history museums are usually self-funded. These museums can also run as independent organizations or they can managed by an accompanying local historical society which also will maintain an archive of local records in addition to
24-401: The area such as a bank or a railroad depot. Many local museums are also open-air museums in which several historical buildings from the area have been collected in some museum villages and rebuilt in a new location. In some cases the character of the local history museum is superimposed with the representation of a famous or well-known person from the area, or focuses on a single branch of
32-400: The economy that was or is particularly formative for the region. Local history museums offer the interpretation of the everyday lives of ordinary people and the unique histories that locale may offer. These museums also offer a more in-depth look into the details of how national and international events affected the locale represented by the museum. In Germany, a specific type of local museum
40-526: The history of hundreds of inland barges and a similar number of skippers families. For the Groningen peatdistrict the 19th century is a golden age. Agriculture, shipping and potato starch and strawboard industries flourish. Hundreds of captains sail from Veendam , Wildervank , Oude Pekela , Nieuwe Pekela to Portugal, Great Britain and the Baltic Sea. Strawboard is exported to England, which explains
48-483: The museum's three-dimensional object collection. Local history museums are frequently housed in a historically significant or thematically typical building; it is often a former public building such as a school building, a former courthouse, or city/town hall since the structure, which was already owned by the municipality and can continue its use as a in the public realm as a museum. Other times museums are located in repurposed commercial buildings that had significance for
56-463: The name Albion of one of the factories. Amazing when you consider that these enterprising villages are situated more than forty kilometres from the coast. In 2008–2019, the museum had between 20,000 and 29,000 visitors annually. The Veenkoloniaal Museum is located at the Museumplein 5 in the village of Veendam in the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands . The museum
64-495: Was founded on 15 December 1939. Since 1989, the museum is housed in a former school building in the center of Veendam. Hendrik Andries Hachmer is director of the museum. In the years 2003 to 2019, the museum had between 17,500 and 28,600 visitors per year, with more than 25,000 visitors in 2016. The museum is a member of the regional Museumhuis Groningen (Groningen Museum House) and the national Museumvereniging (Museum Association). Local museum These museums can cover
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