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A Glimpse into the Past The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) was a defining animal of the Ice Age landscape. During the Mammoth Steppe of the Late Pleistocene, approximately 100,000 to 20,000 years ago, these impressive herbivores roamed vast regions of Europe and Asia. Their fossil remains are almost always found alongside those of woolly mammoths, […]

An Extraordinary Find from Arctic Siberia The completely preserved skull of a cave or steppe lion was discovered in the permanently frozen ground – the permafrost – of Arctic Siberia (Yakutia, Russia). This fossil is one of the rarest finds from the Ice Age and offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of this long-extinct […]

HERE STANDS A LIFE-SIZED MODEL OF THE SOUTHERN MAMMOTH, THIS IS THE LARGEST MAMMOTH OF ALL TIME! Mammuthus meridionalis (NESTI, 1825). The iconic Ice Age animal, the woolly mammoth, has already been reconstructed in many life-sized models, which can be seen in various museums and parks across Europe, Asia, and North America. This has made […]

Composite skeleton of the wild horse. Constructed from numerous different bones from various animals, recovered from the North Sea seabed. During the Pleistocene, especially around 40,000–50,000 years ago, wild horses were abundant on the vast plains of the dry North Sea between the British Isles and the Netherlands. They were likely the most common large […]

Permaculture is a system of agricultural and social design principles centred around simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and features observed in natural ecosystems. In nature there is a great diversity of life which increases the chance of survival. Agriculture, as it is today, has many harmful consequences such as the enormous use of fossil […]

“Grienden” were boggy areas such as water meadows where willows grew. The wood was used to make baskets, mats, and fences. Workers in this industry had a very hard life. We have created a water meadow, fed by the windmill next to the dyke. The water is pumped around and around which improves the water […]

The Pyramids in Egypt were the tombs of the pharaohs who ruled over that country in ancient times. The pharaohs were buried as mummies with their possessions. These valuables were often stolen by grave thieves. The first pyramid was built about 2500 B.C. About 70 still survive. More than 100,000 people were involved in the […]

A “hunebed” is a megalithic tomb. It seems that the remains of the funeral meal were also buried. The bones were sorted – skulls with skulls, thigh bones with thigh bones etc. The construction consists of upright boulders, with flat boulders on top to form a roof. The spaces in between were filled with stones. […]

This bunker was built by a civilian in Pernis (a suburb of Rotterdam) during WW2. It was used as an air-raid shelter. Go inside, and experience for yourself what it felt like to have bombs falling all around you. Children only admitted in the presence of an adult.

Historyland is a museum that wants to provide insight into the course and understanding of history. Unfortunately, war has always played an important part of this. We have here many examples of weapons, and forms of transport from WW1, WW2, and the Cold War. It is not our aim to glorify war, only to show […]