A day out in Schagen

Museum Vreeburg and the Carriage Museum

A restored 17th-century farmhouse, now a regional museum with furnished rooms, costumes, lace bonnets and old tools. On West Frisian Thursdays horses are shod in the forge. Behind the farm is the Carriage Museum (since 2009).
Loet 14, Schagen · +31 224 216906 · museumvreeburg.nl

Schagen Car Museum

Lagedijkerweg 1a. Free admission, open on West Frisian Thursdays and on Sundays from April to October.

Somme Museum 1914-1918

Near the Slotplein: uniforms, weapons and objects from the battlefields of northern France. By appointment: +31 224 216471.

Regional Museum 1940-1945

In one of the castle towers. Open during the West Frisian markets, on 5 May and by appointment: +31 224 216248.

The church tower

On Thursdays you can climb the tower of the church on the Markt and see the parade and all of Schagen from above.