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d Bokrijk Openluchtmuseum VISITORS’ CHECKLIST

Rescued, transported to and preserved in a large park of Practical Information
woodland and pasture, the Bokrijk Openluchtmuseum, or Domein Bokrijk, Bokrijklaan 1,
Open-air Museum, is a fascinating collection of over a 100 Genk; 8 km (5 miles) E of Hasselt.
Road Map E2. Tel (011) 265300.
historic rural buildings from across Flanders. Grouped by their Open end-Mar–end Sep: 9am–
regional origins into three village areas, the buildings are 6pm Tue–Sun (Mon in Jul & Aug).
open, revealing dimly lit interiors full of authentic fur niture, & 7 0 - =
∑ bokrijk.be
furnishings and tools. Staff in traditional costume demonstrate
crafts such as spinning and baking, and help create a convincing Transport
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image of what daily life was like in rural Flanders before 1914.

Agricultural Architecture
Interior Features This 16th-century farmhouse
Most buildings here have original is built in the style familiar from
interior features, such as 18th-century Brueghel’s paintings. The windmill
fireplaces with Delft tiles that depict dates from 1788 and still contains
scenes from the Bible. the original millstones.

The fertile
lowlands: East and
West Flanders

The poor
heathlands or
The old town the Kempen

The fertile uplands: Limburg,
Haspengouw and the Maasland
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Grain Store
This timber-framed
Village Priest spijker (grain store)
Many of Bokrijk’s dates from the 16th
costumed workers century. The building is
are on hand to from Limburg
explain what life province, where it
was like in the pre- probably formed part
industrial rural areas. of a brewery.

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