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Roeffie Says: Museum SchoklandThe museum tells you all about the former Island Schokland, from prehistorical artifacts to how the people lived on the island and how the surrounding sea became land.Opening hours From 1 april to 31 october from Tuesday to Sunday (july and august also on...
All buildings are new, even the churches
Pavlik_NL Says: The fact that this land only excists for a few decades now, makes everything rather new. Buildings do not have monumental status or look historical in any way. This is quite strange for many, including myself. Roads in the polders are made so that they for a chessboard...
The surroundings with some pleasant surprises
Pavlik_NL Says: The surroundings of the museum offer two guided walkingtrails that follow the old coastal shores of the island of Schokland. It goes along sites where remains of the setllements can be seen. The most impressive however is the nature that is here on the bottom of the sea...
The museum that tells the tale.
Pavlik_NL Says: Already before Christ people lived on Schokland and it was even quite popular in medieval times. Then this island was surrounded by a treachurous swamp-area in which the winning of peat was profitable. There was a instable connection with the mainland for a while, but the...
Only by car this museum can be reached
Pavlik_NL Says: On the road from Urk (see my Urk-page) to Kampen and Zwolle, one drives along the Schokland-museum. It is clearly pointed out on the roadsigns and a small parking shows that not many visitors come here daily. Still, the terrain around is quite impresive. Fields and acres...
The little details that make up the "New Lands"
Pavlik_NL Says: Look around sharply and find out little differences with the main land. The new polders are quite different from the old land and have there own tradition. A small example is what you find on top of the churchtowers. No, it's not the traditional rooster, but always something...
Pavlik_NL Says: No, these cows are not painted or influenced by gen-terrapy. It's just a long time or cross-sexing to reach the wished for effect. No, there are no zebra's involved in that, but it's quite funny to see and many tourists do like this little speciality of Dutch...
Pavlik_NL Says: Most tourists will never know about Flevoland and 99,9% never will see anything from the Noord-Oost-Polder. Few will travel to Urk, but if there will be any visiting Ens on former Schokland ... I don't know. Anyway, Ens and Schokland-museum are intresting, yet totally off...
Still worth the attention on VT
Pavlik_NL Says: Schokland, Ens ... obviously no-one ever heared of it or went there or is going to visit this place. But the history is there and the museum shows you why this place is worth mentioning here on VT. So that someone who will get intrested will know where to find it and that...
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Already before Christ people lived on Schokland and it was even quite popular in medieval times. Then this island was surrounded by a treachurous swamp-area in...
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Ens on Schokland, was here an island?
Ens, a little nothing in Flevoland has still a museum to offer in which a strange, but nice story is told. Like on Urk (the place that puts this one completely in the shade), here once was an island...
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Schokland, a former dutch island!
This page is more about the isle of Schokland, at least that was the case until 1942. That is the time the "Noordoostpolder" was created and surrounded the isle with land in what was formerly the...
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