Menkemaborg

The Menkemaborg features carefully preserved rooms filled with period furniture, silverware, porcelain items, and portraits from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The manor's construction dates back to 1614, with major renovations completed around 1700 by the Alberda family who commissioned extensive interior decorations.

The gardens follow a 1705 design with geometric patterns of trimmed box trees, traditional flower beds, a kitchen garden, and an orchard of heritage fruit trees.

The museum opens daily except Mondays, offering guided tours through furnished rooms that display the living conditions of Dutch nobility from past centuries.

A preserved Chinese silk damask canopy bed remains in position, accompanied by baroque wood carvings and mythological paintings on the mantelpieces.

Location: Eemsmond

Inception: 1614

Part of: Menkemaborg

Address: Menkemaweg 2 9981CV 9981CV

GPS coordinates: 53.40496,6.68387

Latest update: March 6, 2025 17:04