Illustr.by Job Rabbelier. Click picture to brows his portfolio

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To become a good visual idea about Dutch feasts and traditions, the 17th-age Dutch genre painters offer a wealth of information. Jan Steen for instance wonderfully pictured Dutch daily family-life like for instance the 'Feast of St. Nicholas' and the 'Bean Feast', the feast of Dertienavond (= Twelfth Night) 13 day's after Christmas. You can easily find these paintings by clicking here. This will bring you to 'Genre paintings (page 1)' from the The Web Gallery of Art-site. Some other great art-sites are:

Mark Harden's Artchive

The Art Cyclopedia site

Go to the World Database of Happiness to find out what contemporary Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourgians think about life .The Database is a continuous register of scientific research on subjective appreciation of life. It's a Dutch project of the Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
For folklore and mythology of the Netherlands and Belgium, but also from any country or region in the world I can recommend the 'Folklore and Mythology' site, which is filled with a shipload of electronic texts.

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"Tales told In Holland", by Olive Beaupre Miller, Maud and Miska Petersham

Celebrated now and in the past

(16-/17th century included)

Not celebrated worth mentioning not now nor in the past

Modern feasts and commemorations

Double-click the Blue words to see a popup window with a short explanation of the custom/feast. These texts are written and contributed by Cor Snabel. Click here if you want to read all his "Leisure and folklore" articles.
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January 5, evening

Driekoningenavond, Dertienavond

Very popular and widespread in the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th century!

March

Palmzondag

(start of the 'Goede Week')

Palm Sunday

(start of the Holy Week)

April 30

May 4

Dodenherdenking

(commemeration of all the dead and victims of WW II)

May 5

Bevrijdingsfeest

(liberation-day 1945)

Kruideniersmuseum Betje Boerhave Heirs. This very small museum actually is housed in a former grocer-shop in the centre of the town of Utrecht. The museum conservated the look of this grocer-shop anno 1873 and there is a exhibition of products of that area and later.
There also are two more museums of grocer-shops in the Netherlands:
1. Kruideniersmuseum of Albert Heijn, at the Kalveringdijk 5, Zaandam, a few miles north of Amsterdam;
2. Kruideniersmuseum 'De Vier Geslachten', Noordlaren, a few miles south of the town of Groningen;
3. Kruideniersmuseum, Venestraat 61, Leidschendam, a few miles north of The Hague;
4. Kruideniersmuseum "den Halven Maen", Brielle, southwest of Rotterdam.

Click here to see some pictures of the Kruideniersmuseum in the town of Utrecht.
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