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Museum · Zaanstad · Updated on 1 November 2026.

Hembrug Museum in Zaanstad

Hembrug Museum is a museum in Zaanstad, North Holland. This place has a story in the app. Within 670 m you'll find a bench, a public toilet and a water point.

Hembrug Museum in Zaanstad
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Story · Hembrug Museum

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You're standing at the Hembrug Museum in Zaandam, on the grounds of the old state artillery works. Look around you. For more than a hundred years, this forty-three-hectare site was off limits. Secrecy rules applied, because weapons and ammunition were made here for the Dutch armed forces.

Read the whole story in the Outdoor Pitstop app: check in at this place and it is yours (with Pro; new users are Pro for the first 4 weeks).

Opening hours and admission

Admission
Free

Source: OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.

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1 photo from Wikimedia Commons. In the app you add your own photo when you are there.

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