Neeltje Jans is the folcloristic name of Nehalenia, the roman goddess of the North Sea who gave her name to the artificial island and the the fun-, history- and science-park. The park shows the construction of the Oosterschelde storm surge barrier and the changes of the landscape of Zeeland and the delta of the big rivers Rhine, Maas and Scheld since the flood disaster in 1953.
We vistited this park today by rainy cold weather, which under more was responsible for our negative testimonial: The park has a very good intention for an interesting matter, but it is high time for a renovation. We felt kind of lost because the visitor is not guided through the site by the installation itself, like nowadays you are used from many modern museums. A lot of tv's and video installations didn't work, photographs were not recognizable anymore because of damage, the 3D animation might have been interesting before 'Avatar' but now it comes over a little dated; films are supposed to be supplied by subtitles in different languages, but only the titles were translated into german, english and french. Where there were information sets with different languages the headphones felt into pieces, big parts of the site were dusty. The atmospere in the main-building was rather depressive and outside was a look of construction site.
So we think the straight tip is to come only with warm sunny weather! At least the kids will have a lot of fun in the waterpark!
But there were still interesting, well-appointed attractions as you can see on the pictures
this futuristic video installation looks like in a sciences fiction movie - at least one of the 80's
inside a whale sceleton
a trip to the seal sandbanks is included - probably less boring in spring or summer
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| cute: a baby ray |
a reconstruction of a shop that sold products made of whale
more info: www.neeltjejans.nl
you will get a reduction if you book online or if you have visited the Wateresnoodmuseum (my favorite) before.
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