Museum de Oude Wolden
The old building with the new wing in 2013
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 Location in Groningen in the Netherlands
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| Established | 10 August 1973 |
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| Location | Hoofdweg 161 Bellingwolde, Netherlands |
| Coordinates | 53°06′47″N 7°09′43″E / 53.1131°N 7.1619°ECoordinates: 53°06′47″N 7°09′43″E / 53.1131°N 7.1619°E |
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Regional museum Art museum History museum |
| Visitors | 4,942 (2016) |
| Director | Obby Veenstra |
| Public transit access | Tweekarspelenweg Bus lines: 12, 811 |
| Website | museumdeoudewolden |
Museum de Oude Wolden (Dutch pronunciation: [myˈzeːʏm də ˈʌudə ˈʋɔldən]; English: Museum The Old ), abbreviated as MOW, is a regional museum in the village of Bellingwolde in the Netherlands. The museum focuses on art and history of the regions of Oldambt and Westerwolde in the east of the province of Groningen.
The museum opened on 10 August 1973. In the first decades, it primarily exhibited historical objects documenting everyday life. In the late 1990s, the museum started to exhibit artworks of artist collective De Ploeg and magic realist painter Lodewijk Bruckman. Since 2012, it has a permanent display of paintings by Bruckman and temporary exhibitions.
The museum is an independent foundation that is mainly funded by the municipality of Bellingwedde. From 2013 to 2016, the museum had around 4,700 visitors per year. It is one of the lesser-visited museums in Groningen.
Museum de Oude Wolden is located at the Hoofdweg in the village Bellingwolde in the municipality Bellingwedde in the east of the province Groningen near the Dutch–German border. It is situated in the south of the region Oldambt and in the north of the region Westerwolde.
The old museum building is the restored backhouse (Dutch: achterhuis) of a former mansion (Dutch: herenhuis) of which the fronthouse was destroyed during a World War II bombing. In 1977, the building was expanded with a new wing for 150,000 guilders (68,000 euro). In 2012, the building was renovated and received a new glass entrance, which cost 223,000 euro in total.
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