Opening Day
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Programme subject to change.
Day of Crafts and Museums.
Between 09:00 and 15:00 there are many traditional crafts to admire in the Nieuwstraat. Real craftsmanship! A hand-cranked barrel organ also plays in the Nieuwstraat. And from 12:00 there is tanning sails and quill writing.
There are extensive demonstrations of bobbin lace making, and the cheesemaker, rope maker and bookbinder are also present to show how people used to work.
As an extra festivity on the opening day, the shanty choir het Scheepstuygh performs. ‘Het Scheepstuygh’ from Schagen has been our guest several times before. They will perform around the Markt.
09:00 Harnessing and hitching the horses in the Muziektuin behind Museum Vreeburg.
09:00 – 15:00 Traditional crafts in the Nieuwstraat.
10:00 The West Frisians gather at the corner of Nieuwe Laagzijde/Stationsweg (café Spoorzicht) for the parade.
10:00 – 15:00 The tower on the Markt can be climbed for a small fee; inside the tower is the exhibition with many historical photographs of the Westfriese Folklore.
10:00 – 15:00 Wood turner in the old smithy at Vreeburg.
10:45 The parade sets off from the Nieuwe Laagzijde.
11:00 – 13:00 Organ recital by Peter Hengstman in the Dutch Reformed Church (N.H. Kerk) on the Markt.
11:25 Performance by the children's dance group on the church square on the Markt.
11:30 The Hoorn cheese porters' guild demonstrates how things used to be done at the cheese market.
11:45 Children's bread meal on the Markt.
11:45 Performance by the West Frisian dance group on the church square on the Markt.
12:00 Tanning sails and quill writing, at the corner of Markt/Nieuwstraat.
12:00 – 13:00 The farrier shoes horses in front of the Vreeburg museum farm on the Loet.
12:30 Musical performance by the shanty choir “het Scheepstuygh” on the dance stage by the church.
13:00 Opening reception for invited guests.
13:15 – 15:00 Skroifgroep Langedoik (West Frisian writers' group) in the coffee room of the church on the Markt. They sing and tell anecdotes in the wonderfully rich West Frisian dialect.
Don't forget to visit our beautiful Vreeburg museum farm and the Carriage Museum.
