Spoorweg Museum

Since acquiring annual museum cards, we decided to venture out to various museums across the country. This weekend we visited Het Spoorwegmuseum Utrecht. It is the national Dutch railway museum located in the center of the Netherlands. The museum is housed around a former train station named Maliebaan. There are a variety of exhibits from small rides/simulations to steam locomotives. The exhibits are dynamic and sometimes they even move trains around the museum.

Outside of the museum

Outside of the museum

Steam locomotive at the museum

Steam locomotive at the museum

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Replica of the first steam line to open in the Netherlands between Haarlem and Amsterdam

Replica of the first steam line to open in the Netherlands between Haarlem and Amsterdam

selfie!

selfie!

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1940s train car used to deport Jews from Maliebaan station to concentration camps

1940s train car used to deport Jews from Maliebaan station to concentration camps

View from inside the 1940s railcar

View from inside the 1940s railcar

Original departure schedule flipboard for Dutch train stations

Original departure schedule flipboard for Dutch train stations

Train station style bathroom inside the museum. The fountain on the right is actually a sink

Train station style bathroom inside the museum. The fountain on the right is actually a sink

Famous Rietveld House nearby in Utrecht

Famous Rietveld House nearby in Utrecht

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