Schools

Schools

Experience the history lessons in real life

Take your class on a trip into a living history book at the preHistorisch Dorp. Discover a fascinating and enticing way to bring history to life for your students: living history. At the open-air museum the students can see, hear, grab, smell and taste everything they learned during the history lessons. This enriches the learning material and makes the lessons stick like never before. Experience the past with your group or class at the preHistorisch Dorp.

Experience the past

Take your school to the preHistorisch Dorp and experience the most delightful (school) trip through time armed with a book of activities. Students will discover all of the eras you can find at our museum by themselves: from hunters and farmers up to discoverers and reformers. Suitable for all ages, a guaranteed historical adventure for each pupil!

Experience the past

Experience prehistoric times

Our educational programmes for the prehistoric age go perfectly with the age from your history lessons: the time of hunters and gatherers. Make your pick from a number of interesting programmes personally guided by a real inhabitant. This is the single most authentic way to discover the prehistoric age with a group from primary or secondary school.

Experience prehistoric times

Experience the Middle Ages

The educational programmes about the Middle Ages are a perfect fit for the school curriculum: dive into the world of monks and knights or into the age of cities and states. During these programmes, the students get to work themselves and experience the Middle Ages personally, all guided by a historical inhabitant. These educational programmes are suitable for all ages in primary and secondary education.

Experience the Middle Ages

School camps

Imagine… discovering history together, eating at the crackling campfire and sleeping on straw matrasses. You will never forget a school camp at the preHistorisch Dorp. Pick one of our two or three day school camps with a prehistoric or medieval programme.

More about school camps

School camps

Educational programmes

Our educational programmes complement the time periods from the history curriculum in the Netherlands and are also available in English. Choose from numerous fascinating programmes, that range from a couple of hours to multiple days and are suitable from for all ages. Discover our history in real life with the whole group. 


We offer educational programmes for: 

  • Lower classes primary school
  • Upper classes primary school
  • Secondary school

More info about our programmes

Educational programmes

Questions about our selection for schools?

Ask your questions by calling us at 040 - 252 22 81 or by emailing it to info@prehistorischdorp.nl. We’d be happy to answer them.