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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST q Nationaal Park
De Hoge Veluwe
Practical Information
Kröller-Müller Museum: Road map D4. Houtkampweg,
Tel 0318-591241. Otterlo. Tel 055-378 8100. @ Ede,
Open 10am–5pm Tue–Sun & Apeldoorn. Open 9am–6pm daily.
public hols; sculpture garden Like the Kröller-Müller Museum,
10am–4:30pm. Closed 1 Jan.
- & Jachthuis St Hubertus: De Hoge Veluwe is also the
8 daily (Jan: open Sat & Sun result of a collector’s ambition.
only). Reserve tickets at the visitors’ The Kröller-Müllers collected
centre (see column at right). plots of unused land in the
Veluwe until they possessed
Restaurant one single tract of natural land.
They even bought, in 1914, the
public road between Otterlo
and Hoenderlo. The 5,500 ha
(13,600 acres) of woodland,
marshland, heath and drifting
sand now make up the largest
nature reserve in Holland. The
park is a treasure trove for all
kinds of wildlife: rare birds,
butterflies, plants and fungi.
Red deer, roe deer and
moufflon sheep still live freely
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centre here. If you are lucky, you may
be able to catch a glimpse of a
wild boar or a stag (they are
very shy animals). Bicycle and
pedestrian paths have been
laid out everywhere, and at the
visitors’ centre you can borrow
a white bicycle free of charge.
Underneath the visitors’
. Van Gogh Collection centre is the world’s first
Café Terrace at Night (1888). Van Gogh’s underground museum, the
huge collection of drawings, paintings Museonder, giving visitors an
and prints are the heart of the museum. idea of what life is like below
the earth’s surface. You can
see the roots of a 140-year-old
beech tree, experience a
Museum Guide re created earthquake and
The museum, together with drink ancient Veluwe ground-
the sculpture garden, gives water. The park has two
expression to the notion restaurants: the Rijzenburg at
that nature, architecture the Schaarsbergen entrance
and art should be and the De Koperen Kop
combined to form a whole. café-restaurant located in
the visitors’ centre.

Key to Floorplan
Museonder, the world’s first
Exhibition rooms
underground museum

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