Museum De Koloniehof - Frederiksoord NL
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The museum Koloniehof is a museum in the Dutch place Frederiksoord, The Netherlands.
Waymark Code: WMP0FM
Location: Drenthe, Netherlands
Date Posted: 06/04/2015
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The museum's Koloniehof is a memorial museum to the work of the Benevolent Society, which in the first half of the 19th century in the context of poverty reduction various colonies in the then United Kingdom of the Netherlands founded.
The museum was founded in 1993 to mark the 175th anniversary of the Charity Society. The museum shows the history of the formation of colonies in Drenthe and Overijssel and the lives of the settlers displayed. After the French occupation the Netherlands was very impoverished. Benevolent Society founder, Johannes van den Bosch , trying to fight this poverty on a large scale to move poor people from the big cities to unexplored areas include Drenthe and Overijssel. Each settler to provide a house, a plot of 3 acres and what cattle they could provide for their own livelihood. They started in 1818 with a pilot colony Frederiksoord.
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