The Drenthe Museum is a historical museum located in Assen, Netherlands. It was founded by the Commissioner of King Drenthe on November 28, 1854 as the Provincial Antiquities Museum of Drenthe.
| Drenthe Museum | |
|---|---|
| Drents museum | |
 Facade of the Drenthe Museum | |
| Established | November 28, 1854 |
| Location | |
| Address | Assen , Drenthe , Netherlands |
| Director | Michel van maarseveen |
| Site | drentsmuseum.nl |
Collections
The museum houses a large permanent collection of prehistoric artifacts from the province of Drenthe. It includes exhibits of mummified remains of human bodies in marshes (a girl from Ida [1] , a couple of men from Wiring [2] , men from the village of Exloërmond and from the village of Erfscheidenveen) [3] .
The museum houses cultural finds of the funnel-shaped goblets , as well as the oldest restored Pesse canoe , known in world history, whose age dates from 8,200 and 7,600 BC. e. [4] [5]
Notes
- ↑ Bog mummie: Yde Girl (inaccessible link) . www.MummyTombs.com . Date of treatment April 7, 2010. Archived October 2, 2012.
- ↑ Bog mummie: Weerdinge Men unopened (inaccessible link) . www.MummyTombs.com . Date of treatment April 7, 2010. Archived October 2, 2012.
- ↑ Bog mummie: Emmer-Erscheidenveen Man unopened (link unavailable) . www.MummyTombs.com . Date of treatment April 7, 2010. Archived October 2, 2012.
- ↑ Van Zeist, W. (1957), "De steentijd van Nederland", Nieuwe Drentse Volksalmanak T. 75: 4–11
- ↑ The Mysterious Bog People - Background to the exhibition . Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation (July 5, 2001). Date of treatment June 1, 2009. Archived February 15, 2002.