Kamp Westerbork Memorial Center, the hunebed center and the prison museum can look forward to a sum of the province for their renovation or new construction plans. The province will come with 2.5 million euros for museums with large renovation plans next year. In 2027, another 2.5 million euros will be added.
In order to be able to respond to developments at large museums in the province, the coalition parties have agreed to reserve 2 million euros, spread over 2025 and 2026. The province now writes that this is ‘far from sufficient’.
For example, Kamp Westerbork Remembrance Center has a plan for a million renovation, which is expected to be 63.5 million euros. In the plans there must be a new entrance building, the road where the railway line used to run is set up as a monumental memorial and the commander’s house must be upgraded.
The government supports these plans with 15 million euros. The province is allocating 3.5 million euros for it. Of this, 1 million euros comes from this pot for renovation plans of large museums.
There is a plan for the expansion of the exhibition space and a renewal of the exhibition at the prison museum in Veenhuizen. There will be around 1,200 square meters of exhibition space. With this, the museum wants to tell the stories of the Veenhuizen colony on the one hand and the National Prison system on the other.
The Hunebedcentrum in Borger wants a new museum building and is working on sustainability, in collaboration with Geopark de Hondsrug and the Drents Landschap. The idea is to tell hunebeds, archeology and geology in an innovative way in relation to the landscape of the Hondsruggebied and the Hunding area.
Other museums that the province believes that they are ‘of provincial importance’ and also have renovation plans can also use this money.