Brochure Hunebedcentrum (English)

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Opening times
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Monday to Friday
10-00 to 17-00 pm
Weekends and public holidays
11-00 am to 17-00 pm
Museum
Haren
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Hoogezand-Sappemeer
Oude Pekela
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Closed on Christmas Day,
New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
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Admission
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Special price for groups of 15 or more.
The Dutch Annual Museum Pass is
valid.
The largetst megalith in the Netherlands
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Nieuw Buinen
BORGER
Musselkanaal
No dogs allowed
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Activities
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The Hunebedcentrum was
designed by the famous
architectural couple Aldo and
Hannie van Eijck.
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The daily
lives of our
extraordinary
ancestors from
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Activities
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Museum shop
Hunebedcentrum
Bronnegerstraat 12
9531 TG Borger
T: 0031 (0)599 236374
E: [email protected]
I: www.hunebedcentrum.nl
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The Hunebedcentrum is
located exactly where it
should be: right next to
the largest megalith in the
Netherlands. Inside the
museum you’ll find a lifesize replica of one of these
impressive Stone Age
structures. But what would
it have looked like when it
was first built? …
Design: Staal & Duiker, Haren - Photo’s: Wladimir van den Burg - Print: Koninklijke van Gorcum, Assen
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Stone Age house and granary
Museum café
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The Hunebedcentrum organises special
educational, cultural and sporting
activities throughout the entire year for
both children and adults. Please refer to
our website for more information:
Film hall
Follow
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www.hunebedcentrum.nl
Welcome to the
Hunebedcentrum
(Megalith Centre)
in Borger
With 16 megaliths in the
surrounding area, the
village of Borger in the
province of Drenthe is
the megalith capital of
the Netherlands. So it’s
no surprise to find the
Hunebedcentrum here!
A remarkable museum
in a remarkable
building. The start of an
unforgettable journey into
a prehistoric age.
The Megaliths are
mysterious stone
monuments dating back
some 5,000 years. But
what are they exactly?
Who made them? How?
And why? How did
people live back in those
times? What did the
countryside look like?
Join us on a journey
of discovery in Borger.
Follow the megalith
builders’ trail.
An icy journey from
Scandinavia
Your visit to the
Hunebedcentrum will start
with a film, which will take
you back some 150.000
years on an icy journey
from Scandinavia to
Drenthe.
Not tall, but strong
This is a family of megalith
builders. They weren’t
very tall people, an
adult man would grow
to around 1.65 m and a
woman 1.55 m. And they
didn’t grow particularly old,
no more than around 50-60
years of age.
But they were certainly
strong enough to move
stones weighing around
20 tons. How heavy is that
exactly? Well, it’s 20 cars
without wheels. So how did
they manage to do that? The
film will show you.
Look,
listen,
feel,
smell,
do..
Experience!
Trechterbeker
(Funnel Beaker)
In the olden days people
thought these peculiar
stone piles or Hunebedden
were the graves of a race of
giants known as ‘huynen’.
Of course we now know
better. This is why experts
prefer to speak about the
‘Funnel Beaker’ people.
This beautiful beaker shows
where the name came
from.
No angels
Most people imagine the
megalith builders to have
been peaceful farmers. But
is this truly an accurate
picture? Many battle
hammers have been found.
Surely these weren’t just
used for decoration?
This man certainly didn’t
meet a peaceful end.
And this young woman was
strangled with a cord.
A complete
inventory
From hunter to farmer
Bon appétit
Bears on the road
Before 5000 BC, everyone
lived by hunting, fishing
and collecting edible
plants. There were only a
few hundred people and
they travelled around
the wild and desolate
countryside. Later,
agriculture spread across
Europe and then the
villagers began to build
large houses and create
final resting places for
themselves …
Einkorn, emmer and a pork
cutlet. Does that sound
good? Emmer is a type
of wheat. This is what the
megalith builders grew
on their fields along with
barley, beans and flax.
Cattle would graze along
the forest’s edge: pigs,
sheep, goats and cows.
Make sure you take care
when going out for a stroll!
The skull of a young brown
bear was found not far
away in Friesland.
There are still 54 megaliths
in the Netherlands. Of
course there used to be a
lot more, but many of them
were demolished. The last
undisturbed megalith to
have been excavated by
our ‘prehistoric detectives’
(in 1970) stands in the
‘Drouwener’ field, not far
from Borger. The complete
contents of this megalith
can now be seen and
enjoyed by the public for
the very first time in the
Hunebedcentrum.