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Until spring 2012 there is a special exhibition about the “Molukkers” in the Dutch army in the East-Indies. This is a special year it is 60 years ago that the “Molukkers” came to the Netherlands. Our museum and several other give special attention to that part of our history.

History

Click here to read the report from the commemoration of the liberation.
Former exhibitions were:

In 2010 from March until May we showed a special exhibition about the suffering of the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

In 2009 we remembered our 65th anniversary of liberation with special exhibitions and commemorating in our  “Welch Room” and also in other parts of the museum.
We named a street after the only war victim Hooge Mierde suffered: “Toon van den Borne”.

In 2008 this was:
The happened to deserters in the German army.
The exhibition will be opened the 18th of februari 2008.
In the summer period:
The Dutch in Korea in the early fifties.

2007.
april
Resistance-help for Jewesh refugees in this area.
August.
The Dutch in New-Guinee.
23 rd of September:
Opening of the “Welch room” in the museum.
Sept till the end of the year:
The battle for Reusel in september 1944.

2006.
December 2005/January 2006:
What happened between 1945 and 1949 in the former Dutch East-Indies?
March/April 2006:
The starvation of lots of people in the western part of the Netherlands in the winter of 1944-1945. This area was only liberated in May/June 1945 and people had nothing to eat or to warm themselves.
May/June 2006. The first five days of the Second World War in the Netherlands and what happened to the Dutch army.
August/ September:
“Bersiap” in the former Dutch East Indies.
A lot of Dutch people who were internees and a lot of Dutch POW’s came after the capitulation of Japan out of the camps in Asia and thought that there would come a period of peace in their country. But instead of peace there was a dirty war going on and a lot of innocent people were killed without any mercy.
November/ December:
What happened when the atomic bombs fell on Japan in august 1945?

2005:
August/ September:
15th of august: remembering the 60th anniversary of the Japanese surrender, with some words of people who suffered in that period.
August/ September:
Something about the Japanese in the former Dutch East-Indies during The Second World War and their capitulation.
September/ October:
What happened in our area in September 1944.
We are working on a corporation with the museum of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, who liberated our area.

The festivities in September/ October 2004 were very well experienced by the people who joined us.

The 1st of May 2005 the museum was reopened on the new location. This is a former-bank building in the village centre of Hooge Mierde, a beautiful building with a lot of possibilities for the museum.
The opening ceremony on the new location of the museum was spectacular.
One of the Dutch veterans, he was in the former Dutch East-Indies and was POW on the Burma railway, brought a huge canon and gave us a gunshot that we all will remember.

I hope that it is clear to you what we are organising and for sure our thoughts will be with our liberators.

5 Mei 2004
Viewday museum

18 November 2003
Rehousing barack