Museum Haarlem

Museum Haarlem is a museum in Haarlem approximately the history and cultural heritage of Haarlem and South Kennemerland. The town museum is located inside the ancient middle of Haarlem at Groot Heiligland 47, diagonally opposite the Frans Hals Museum. The Zuid-Kennemerland Historical Museum Foundation turned into hooked up on 25 August 1975.

Until 1990 the inspiration became active as a historical records center. From 1990 she organizes exhibitions within the former Sint Elisabeth Gasthuis at Groot Heiligland 47. The museum has been identified as a museum because November 1998 and has been unique by means of the tax government as an ANBI organization. In 2005 the call of the museum become modified to Historisch Museum Haarlem. In 2012, the museum started out the transition to a museum that now not best informs visitors approximately history, however also links it to the present. With this, the museum wants to invite the general public to look at the beyond in a new manner. Part of this transition is the call trade at the start of 2015 in Museum Haarlem.