Everything about the chicken and the egg

Permanent Exhibition

Our spacious museum has an extensive collection of museum pieces that tell the whole story of the development of Dutch poultry farming: from small-scale poultry farming to the modern, animal-friendly farms of today. You will discover unexpected facts about chickens and eggs.

  • Where does the chicken come from?

  • How is an egg structured?

  • Chicks straight from an old incubator

  • Old and new forms of housing

  • Egg sorting machines, with demonstration

  • The Barneveld egg market

  • For the children, there is a treasure hunt with Kuukel as their guide!

Exhibition in a museum featuring historical photographs, mannequins, antique objects, and decorative elements. Black-and-white photographs depict people from the past, and there are baskets displaying eggs and other goods.
A factory or workshop with a production machine and boxes of packaged products on a conveyor belt.
Interior of a museum with a traditional thatched hut, agricultural tools, and a doll in traditional costume. The background shows a painted landscape with meadows and trees.
An old industrial incubator with eggs on racks inside.
Interior of an industrial space with old machines and equipment, including parts, a scale, and bags, with historical black-and-white photos of men working in a factory on the wall.
Interactive installation with wooden cubes, TV screen, decorative elements, and seating cubes in an exhibition space.