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New: Cheese Warehouse

The latest addition to the Dutch Cheese Museum is our interactive cheese warehouse. Here you can test your knowledge about cheese with 10 quiz questions. The questions and answers are supported with spectacular images and…

Cheese markets in 2024

Thousands of visitors from all over the world come to Alkmaar especially for the cheese market. It is therefore a special spectacle with a square full of cheese and lugging cheese carriers. In 2024, the…

Free entrance children

As a fantastic end to our anniversary year, children up to 12 years old receive free admission during the Christmas holidays if accompanied by a paying adult. There is also a special anniversary treasure hunt…

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40 years Dutch Cheese Museum

On April 21, 2023, the Dutch Cheese Museum will be 40 years old! Of course we will celebrate with all kinds of fun activities and anniversary promotions. So keep an eye on this website and…

Discover Holland

You can also take advantage of the special deal if you travel by train: get an admission e-ticket to Cheese Museum and a day return train and tram ticket from any station in the Netherlands…

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Longer opening hours

The Dutch Cheese Museum is open even more frequently from 1 October a.s. The new opening times are: OPEN: whole year from Monday to Sunday: from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. all year on Sundays…

Cheese and Tulips

Cheese and Tulips, can it be more Dutch? On Friday 12 April there will once again be a colorful cheese market with 25,000 tulips. Afterwards, the cheese girls and boys hand out the tulips to…