Tourist attractions Stavoren

This museum will delight you with its many reconstructions of local interiors featuring painted furniture and everyday objects typical of the town, its rich collection of traditional costumes, its series of tiles and ceramic pictures and its pictures..

This stunning small museum has paintings (oils, watercolours) and drawings by the self-taught artist Jopie Huisman. This Friesian rag and bone man and scrap metal merchant was born at Workum in 1922. His paintings are often moving and show a great in..

In this museum, lovers of ice-skating will find skates, toboggans, medals, photos, trophies and of course everything they need to know about the famous tour of 11 towns.

The main square, flanked by the town hall, the church of St Gertrude and the public weigh house , is a picturesque collection of buildings.

The town hall's high façade dates from the 18C. The old town hall is a small Renaissance building and is decorated with sculpted stone.

This vast Gothic building built in the 16 and 17C has an impressive isolated belfry crowned by a tiny onion dome. The interior has an attractive 18C pulpit and nine stretchers ( gildebaren ) whose paintings illustrate the activities of the Guilds. Th..

This pretty 17C building is topped by stepped dormer windows. It contains the Warkums Erfskip , a museum which traces the history of the town and predominantly that of navigation and the pottery industry (everyday ceramics, typical of Workum).

This former farm and its carpentry workshop (1845) are open to the public. Across the street, the village church, topped with a pointed belltower, has been attractively repainted.

The statue of the engineer Lely , designer from 1891 of the project to close off the Zuiderzee, crowns the side of Den Oever (entrance to the dyke). On the sea side, a breakwater protects a cycle track and a road. Below the dyke, on the IJsselmeer..

This old farm, named Yzeren Kou is typically Friesian and is open to the general public. It is a large building, home to an enormous grange and cowshed. The outbuilding is raised to make space for the dairy.

The public weigh house is a pretty construction from 1698 which now has, on the ground floor, the tourist office. The two grainstores are occupied by a part of the Friesian ceramics museum ( Fries Aardewerkmuseum "de Waag" ).

In this pottery centre founded in 1594, you can see an exhibition and visit the studios.

From this water gate and its mill (1755), there is a pretty view over the canal and the busy lakes. In high season they are full of sailing boats.