Museum Tot Zover

Visit the museum with your City Card

It is not necessary to reserve a time slot to visit this location with your City Card. Make sure your City Card is valid at the time of your visit

Life and death

As humans, we cherish life, but we need death to make it meaningful. Our society is always changing. This affects the forms of funeral services, funeral rituals and the way we mourn.

Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover tells about how we deal with death on the basis of four themes: rituals, the body, mourning and memory and memento mori.

Collection

In addition to the permanent collection, the museum programs groundbreaking exhibitions such as Funeral Train, Afterlife, The Pixelated Revolution, De Vogelvanger and Post Mortem, all of which received five-star reviews in the newspapers.

The museum provides an overview of the traditions and customs in the field of dying, burial and mourning in the Netherlands. For example, there are items related to the funeral industry, such as an addressee's uniform and a flash gun, which was used to dispel bad smells in death chambers. In addition, attention is paid to modern funeral rituals, for example in other cultures. Artists are also speaking.

Tours

You can book guided tours through the museum and the grounds of De Nieuwe Ooster. A tour during normal opening hours takes about an hour.