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Why is prime minister Kok's name linked to a quarter? Who wore badges opposing nuclear weapons? Where does the Dutch tulip bulb originate from? Find out in the National Vending Machine.
Here you can find all objects from the machine. Read about their history, watch the clip and find additional information about each object. Furthermore, you can add your own comments to each object to complete the file.
For a long time, the picture postcard was a souvenir, a kind of summary of a holiday experience or event. It was a piece of printed…
The IJsselmeer region is the largest freshwater basin in the Netherlands and plays a central role in Dutch water management. It…
When a polder is reclaimed, a bare, wet, muddy plain is created. This is made fertile and useful by planting first common reed…
In the Middle Ages, the central Netherlands accommodated several large lakes. As a consequence of a rise in the sea level and…
The harrier is a slender bird of prey, recognizable by the V-shape of its wings. It is the only bird of prey in the world that nests…
During the penultimate Ice Age, around 150,000 years ago, the Netherlands lay under a thick layer of ice and boulder clay, a mixture…
For a long time, salt was extracted from peat in the Netherlands. In 1515, Charles V banned this form of salt extraction because of…
From 2005 to 2008, the first Twente-based regional soap series “Van jonge leu en oale grond” ("Young folk, old soil") was filmed…
In the seventeenth century, farmers from Twente wove linen for their own use. In the eighteenth century, Bombazine was introduced…
Popcorn is puffed maize. In 1949, Beckum in the Twente region became the first place where maize was grown in the Netherlands. The…
In 1878, a fifteen year-old boy from Enschede, Jan Bernard van Heek, introduced the football in the Netherlands after a study trip…
Inspired by the discoveries of scientists such as René Descartes and Galileo Galilei, the Dutch physicist, mathematician and…
'Tie-wearers of the world, unite! Cast off the rope that binds you!' This was the appeal that Prince Claus of the Netherlands made…
Before the dike to Lemmer was completed on 3 October 1939, Urk had been an island in the Zuiderzee for centuries. It had its own…
Because Flevoland is such a young province, it has had many ‘first times’. From the opening of the first road to the birth of…
On the beach, with a bucket and spade, everyone can build a dam against the seawater and thus function temporarily as a civil engineer.
At present, Flevoland has around 600 wind turbines, more than any other Dutch province. They are responsible for around one third of…
During the Second World War, the Nazis had little anti-aircraft equipment in the IJsselmeer region.
Among other specialities, the medical faculty of the University of Twente is involved in tissue engineering: the printing of body…
The famous author Willem Wilmink (1936-2003) wrote poems, songs and stories. He wrote both in Dutch and in “Twents”, the dialect…
The prehistoric grave field of Vasse in the municipality of Tubbergen consists of twenty burial mounds between 6,000 and 4,000 years…
We have been drinking beer for around 5,000 years. For a long time, it was brewed at home, but from the Middle Ages monasteries and…
In 1996, during excavations in the Bornse stream, several remains of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) were discovered.
‘On their red faces I saw the imprint of numerous glasses of jenever traced in the form of fine blood vessels. It was for people…