Museum on Texel (Ned)

[Martin]

Hi,
Last weekend I was on Texel. This is a small island in the north-west of the Netherlands. It is one of the Wadden-islands.
On this island I visited the Maritime museum.
And to my surprise I found a huge diorama of "de Rede van Texel in 1665" in English: The Roads of Texel 1665"
Ships could find shelter there against the west winds of the North Sea.
This huge diorama was 18 x 4 meters and on it were about 50 ships, all handmade and about 4000 figures. Scale 1:87.
In 1665 Holland was in war with England and Holland had the biggest fleet of the world: merchant ships (VOC) and war ships.
It was our "Golden Age" and also the age of Rembrandt and others.
How things change in 343 years.
After 4 photo's my camera stopped and my reserve batteries turned to be empty as well.
What a pity, otherwise I would have taken a lot of pics.
Also there were about 100 builings and one of them was the "Schans" = Redoubt.
But here are my pics:








I wanted to share them with you all.

[rubenvanginkel]

Wow, that is so darn cool!
The ship is awesome, did it say what the name of the ship was?

Ruben

[Susofrick]

Wow!!! Thanks for sharing this!

[Konrad]

Today you have the biggest fleet of camping trailers.
And f...s with empty reserve batteries.
But nice pics.

(Forgive me my friend.I'm only joking)

[Martin]

The ship is awesome, did it say what the name of the ship was?

Hi Ruben,
As I wrote before, there are over 50 vessels.
A couple of frigates, 8 major battleships of 50+ canon, some VOC merchant ships, some small ones.
I think there we over 10 different kind of ships, all handmade.
They show a video how they made'm.
Also the houses of the town Oudeschild were studied.
Pictures were made of existing 17th Century houses.
It looks impressive.
For anyone who wants to visit this museum:
http://www.texelsmaritiem.nl/UK/main.htm

[Peter]

@Konrad: you're right about the campers and everything else they can go on a camping But they're friendly and that is the most important!

@Martin: go back and take more pictures. I think for me this is a three hours drive, on ship, mh I think three days if I row very hard
Great pictures and thanks for sharing!

Greetings Peter

[Martin]

Hi,
I found the website of the company which made this diorama.
Sorry only in Dutch:
http://voc.artitec.nl/

You can click on the icons on the left to see bigger photo's of the ships.