Travel with City Museum Zoetermeer on a journey to five of the most successful exhibitions from the past. They have each been given a new look and feel. The use of different multimedia techniques makes the exhibition a real experience.

Experience the Dutch secret service in a mini escape room, feel ‘forever young’ in the seventies, go on holiday with Mepal, find out whether knight Willem van Egmond can handle an iPhone and experience the city's first residents pioneering in the polders. 

Travel with the museum on a journey to five of the most successful exhibitions from the past. They have each been given a new look and feel. The use of different multimedia techniques makes the exhibition a real experience. 

In collaboration with Anneliek Holland, MCW / creative agency thought up and developed the escape game which requires visitors to crack various codes in order to escape. In addition, we recently went out and about with knight Willem van Egmond and photographed him in a sneaker store, at the beach, in an operating room and even with a large wild boar. We filmed a camping scene with retired couple Rita and Ben. Visitors can experience the changing face of Zoetermeer by means of photos and audio, as well as vlogs by young people from Zoetermeer which have been compiled on a retro TV. 

The surprising exhibition ‘Terugblikken en Vooruitkijken. Oude hits in een nieuw jasje’ (Looking Back and Ahead: A new look for old hits) celebrates the 25th anniversary of City Museum Zoetermeer. It also forms a testing ground for the programming of the new Living Museum, which is scheduled to open in the former City Hall within the city's shopping centre in 2018. 

The new museum aims to show visitors how life in the Netherlands has changed from 1950 to the current day and beyond. By means of interactive exhibitions, activities and events, we examine how people live, work and cohabit in the cities of yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Testing ground

In the ‘Looking Back and Ahead’ exhibition, the museum asks visitors for their opinion. Which subjects do they find appealing and which less so? What would they like to see in the new museum and what could they do without? Visitors can share their thoughts with the museum in various different ways. The exhibition allows them to respond directly to what they are seeing, there is a comprehensive survey and the hosts are keen to exchange ideas with the visitors. Specially for children, there is the KidsQuest: an enjoyable discovery trail through the exhibition which also makes it possible for them to provide feedback.

More information: stadsmuseumzoetermeer.nl