Nijmegen - Biblical Open-Air Museum Bijbels Openlucht Museum

Leave Nijmegen on the Groesbeekseweg, which runs southeast from Keizer Karelplein. The road continues along the edge of the woods and comes in 4km/2-.5mi to a side road on the left. 300m/330yd along this is the access road to the Biblical Open-Air Museum (Bijbels Openlucht Museum) at Profetenlaan 2, run by the Heilig-Land- Stichting (Holy Land Foundation), with reproductions of the Holy Places of the New Testament.

When the museum was originally opened in 1911 it was primarily concerned with the religious aspects, but since its remodeling in 1970 the emphasis has moved to the authentic reproduction of everyday life in the late Hellenistic period in which Christ lived. In the conducted tour of the 45 hectare/110 acre site visitors are taken past nomad encampments, an early Palestinian village and the houses of the many different peoples of the period - Jews, Persians, Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Assyrians. The exhibition room in the main building is devoted to 2,000 years of Biblical history. There is a good general view from Mount Calvary. Visitors can also travel round the site on a miniature railroad.