By air

Nearest airports to Middelburg are sorted by the distance to the airport from the city centre.
 Knokke/Het Zoute Airport (distanced approximately 26 km)
 Gent/industry Zo Airport (distanced approximately 40 km)
 Ursel Mil Airport (distanced approximately 41 km)
 Bergen Op Zoom Woensdrecht Airport (distanced approximately 46 km)
 Ghent Airport (distanced approximately 51 km)

By train

Middlesbrough train station is four times an hour accessible by train. Middlesbrough is also the regional hub for about a dozen buses on Walcheren, including two bus lines that do not drive it.
 

Middlesbrough Town Hall, Sea Museum, Museum of the Glass Closet, Zeeland Library, Centre for Visual Arts, Abbey Tower, Irish canyons Goals, Abbey of Middelburg

Middlesbrough Town Hall

The Town Hall of Middelburg, a town hall in late Gothic style, situated on the Market in Middelburg . Construction began in 1452 led by several generations of the Flemish architect family Keldermans and lasted until 1520. The town hall has a facade with Gothic windows, red and white shutters, turrets and twenty-five images of Zeeland counts and countesses. The town hall has a tower with a clock and a carillon . Citizens call the tower means Malle nurse, because the clock always lags behind that of the Long John . There used to be a meat market located in the Town Hall. The meat market is now used as freely accessible exhibition space with a collection of contemporary art that is managed by the SBKM since around 1980.

Sea Museum

The Sea Museum is a museum in Middelburg on the province of Zeeland . Since 1972 the Sea Museum is located at Abbey Square in the Abbey of Middelburg .The collection includes the famous Zeeland tapestries , the historical collection of the Royal Zeeland Society of Sciences and the contemporary art collection of the province of Zeeland.On January 16, 2001 the museum was closed for a major refurbishment. Political, financial and construction problems delayed the conversion significantly. On June 5, 2007 could again revamped museum will be open to the public. The official reopening was made by Commissioner of the Queen Karla Peijs .

Museum of the Glass Closet

The Museum of the Glass Closet is located in an old VOC building from 1651 in the Verwerijstraat in Middelburg , called the Glass Closet .The museum was opened in 2009 and consists of three floors and six rooms where only contemporary work by artists Zeeland is shown. There is also a museum shop and museum café.The operation of the museum is housed in the nonprofit "Foundation Glass Cupboard '. This foundation aims to interest people in art and from Zealand to promote.

Zeeland Library

The Zeeland Library is the largest cultural institution in the province of Zeeland . It plays the role of public libraries in Middelburg , scientific library (library WSF) for Zeeland and also the position of Provincial Central Library for libraries and institutions. The Zeeland Library organizes and provides space for numerous cultural events. It receives 400,000 visitors annually and lends each year more than 650,000 publications. The Zeeland Library also provides specific services to education, business, libraries, institutions and individuals.

Centre for Visual Arts

A center Fine Arts is a Dutch institution in its activities aimed at promoting the quantity and quality of visual arts offerings, the professional production environment and / or public participation art and play a variety of tasks. Often, an art library part of the CBK, but that is not the rule.Some centers have a Fine Arts city area, one other province. There are about 20 CBK in the Netherlands.

Abbey Tower

The Abbey tower is 90.5 meters high tower belonging to the abbey in Middelburg . He is remarkable set against the south wall of the aisled Abbey Church. The tower is nicknamed the Long January.
The Abbey tower dates from the second half of the fourteenth century. He is octagonal in shape and lined with heavy stones.The tower is several times by fire damage.In 1590 came a wooden spire in Renaissance style ready, the spire burned in 1712 after Peter county a new high spire designed. In 1714-15, the by Jan Albert de Grave and North Claes cast carillon in the tower, which shall again lost in 1940.After the destruction during World War II, was the architect Jan de Meyer from Amsterdam as early as August 1940 on behalf of the Middelburg municipality to restore the tower. The reopening of the restored tower was in June 1955. The spire was rebuilt in simpler form, and as always wearing an imperial crown.

Irish canyons Goals

Irish gorges Goals is a building at the rear towards the Houttuinen Langeviele in Middelburg in the province of Zeeland . The building has a Flemish facade .The Irish Cracks Goals was built in 1607 in the Flemish Renaissance style. The goals was the rehearsal room of the Gorges Irish. In the time it was a French military hospital.From 1984 to 2004 the building was the home of the Foundation for New Music Center.

Abbey of Middelburg

The Abbey of Middelburg is a former abbey in Middelburg in Zeeland currently serves as office and museum.Since 1100 had been a monastery monks in Middlesbrough. In 1127 established the Premonstratensian of the Abbey of St. Michael of Antwerp here. In 1401 the abbey was under the Pope to stand. One of the abbots was Nicholas van der Burch (Nicholas de Castro), in 1559 to the first bishop of the newly created Diocese of Middlesbrough was appointed. In 1574 came an end to the monastic life.

Eastern Church

The Eastern Church is a Protestant octagonal dome church in Middelburg .The Eastern Church was the first church in Middlesbrough specifically for Protestant worship was built. Under the influence of Bartholomeus Drijfhout and Pieter Post, was chosen for the shape of an octagonal domed baroque. The church was built from 1648 to 1667. After the death of Driftwood in 1651 was the lead taken by the Leiden city architect Arent van 's Grave Zande . The shape of the church is akin to that of the Mare Church in Leiden, also by Van's Grave Zande designed. The church is a white Rijcker The organ from 1782.

Koepoort

The Koepoort is a city gate in 1735 in Middelburg .Middlesbrough had eight gates, and once it is Koepoort the only one to have been kept. This gate, in Baroque style built, was built by the architect Jan de Munck and sculptor Jan Pieter the Younger of Baurscheidt .The North Gate and Dampoort are only a few remnants of the wall work.

Information not available

Information not available

Advertisement