Naturalis - Biodiversity Center

A place where residents and visitors can get inspired to go out in the municipality of Doetinchem and the Achterhoek.

Director Esther Ruesen expresses her proud of the transformation: “Visitors expect more and more experience and with this Inspiration Point, we are responding to this. We also will give tips on how to experience the self, based on the stories of Doetinchem. I am incredibly proud of our volunteers and everyone elso who made this a success. Doetinchem as centre of the municipality of the Achterhoek now has a physical place that does justice to the many opportunities we have to offer.”

Photo: Hip en Stijl Fotografie

A museum centred on the visitor’s media life. The media profile will be created in the ‘Tune in’ zone in which the visitor starts. After this zone, the life in media becomes visible in five thematic spaces: Sharing, Informing, Selling, Telling and Playing. Over fifty interactive exhibits, hundreds hours of audio-visual material and many objects from media history take visitors into the media of the past, present and future.

The new Media museum is a truly unique, educational but above all inspiring journey of discovery for all visitors from about 8 years and older! 

Photo: Jorrit Lousberg

Navy Games shows the special interplay between naval games for entertainment and for training naval personnel. Indeed, the Royal Navy trains with tactical and strategic games, as well as realistic ship and aircraft models.

The exhibition consist of several interactive exhibits. For instance, visitors will have the unique opportunity to sail in an simulator built by the Royal Navy’s Simulation Centre. It also contains a special item of which there are only two complete sets in the whole world, namely the “Janes Naval War Game”. Conceived by British journalist and illustrator Frederick T. Janes in 1898.

Photo: Mike Bink Photography