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Uitgeest to Castricum (by train): Netherlands Uitgeest to Castricum (by train): Netherlands

The Huis Van Hilde Museum was so worth the time. This wasn’t a place that dealt with showing the artefacts. The Dutch really do fantastic work in this realm.   One of the things that set this museum apart was the way many real life figures that had been reconstructed from their skeletal remains. It really brought […]

Huis Van Hilde Museum, Castricum: North Holland, Netherlands Huis Van Hilde Museum, Castricum: North Holland, Netherlands

What a fantastic informative, interactive museum was this! The people were brought to life from the stories their remains told. There were even a few bones of extinct mammals: this was that of a mammoth. We also learned more about the formation of the landscape over the millennia. Once I have a moment to catch up, […]