We frequently provide the National War and Resistance museum in Overloon with a Living History display.
The museum has a lovely wartime living room setup that our actors inhabit as if it was their own.
With the help of many items from our own collection, a radio that broadcasts a real war time radio program, our actors succeed in recreating the past.
Many elderly visitors get very excited when they enter the living room, they feel like stepping back in time.
"Oh my mother had her hair just like you have it dear!"
"Remember those pants? Gosh how we used to hate those!"
It is fantastic to see people who really lived trough that era to be so enthusiastic about what we do there.

The museum lets us use bicycles with real wooden tires, we cycle trough the park, handing out underground newspapers and talking to a eager audience.
Especially children are very interested in what we do, they find us more interesting then what is in the cabinets, they can touch the things we bring.
We let them climb into the hiding place, listen to our radio, we also activate their imagination by asking them to imagine what it would be like if they had to hide from German soldiers, walk around with a ID card, etc.

The Overloon museum is one of our regular settings and we always enjoy returning there.

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Marco is hiding in a tiny little room hidden behind a book case.
Visitors can enter the room trough a secret trapdoor!

 

Caspar and Erik, two Dutch soldiers just as they would have looked during the attack on Holland in may 1940.