Museum Het Schip

A museum inside the strangest social housing block ever built.

Best at: Afternoon
Kind: Something to do
Page: Written by us
Image: Mood still, made by us

The place

In the 1920s a group of architects decided that working people deserved buildings as expressive as anything a rich man could commission, and then built exactly that: rounded brick that moves like water, a spire like a ship's mast, windows in shapes with no function. People still live in it. The museum is in the old post office on the corner.

Before you go

Walk around the outside of the whole block first. The building is the exhibition; the museum explains it afterwards.