Pay attention to bookworms! From Wednesday 12 to Sunday 23 March the party is in the Zoetermeerse book stores, because then is the Book Week.
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During the 90th Book Week everything revolves around ‘your Moerstaal’. Whether you speak flat Haags or cackling ABN, your Moerstaal is the language in which you express yourself best. Whether in conversations, poems, cursing, singing or cheering.
For the real culture snuilders
The Book Week of course also includes the Book Week Gift. If you spend 15 euros in the bookstore, you will receive the book The crater from Gerwin van der Werf as a gift. Extra fun: with the gift you get access to two hundred participating museums. Just show the book at the entrance and you can enter! Good to know: some museums work with time locks, so check if you should reserve in advance.
In Zoetermeer we have no participating museums, but you can go to surrounding cities. Our tips:
- TU Delft Hortus Botanicus
- Museum Rijswijk
- Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden
- Museum Gouda
- House of the book in The Hague
- Museum images aan Zeee on Scheveningen
- Dutch Fotomuseum in Rotterdam
Activities in Zoetermeer
In addition to the museum promotion, there is plenty to do in Zoetermeer during the Book Week:
- Author and television presenter Abdelkader Benali comes to the Library in Zoetermeer in the Book Week. There he talks about his work as a writer and his latest book ‘The mission of De Moor’. The presentation is in the forum on Friday 14 March from 8 p.m. to 9.45 p.m. A card costs 13.50 euros (for non-members, members pay 11 euros). Afterwards you can buy the book and have it signed.
- During the National Book Week, thrift store Het Goed gives a free book away. If you buy three second -hand books, you will get the fourth free.
A whole book week
The very first book day was held on November 15, 1930, organized by the Nederlandsche Uitgeversbond. From 1932 this day was transformed into a whole book week.
Organizer CPNB celebrates the 90th anniversary of the Book Week in 2025. What about that? Book platform Hebban explains: “The German occupier took the book week gift from the market in 1941, the Book Week only returned after the war.”
Every year a special book week gift is given away during this week, such as a short story or a novel. The gift is a book that you get for free at participating book stores, when you buy for a certain amount of books.