Nationaal Baggermuseum

The National Dredging Museum brings to life a unique source of quintessentially Dutch pride: dredging and hydraulic engineering. Sliedrecht is the historic birthplace of the major dredging companies. In this museum, housed in a beautiful stately villa on the Merwede River, you’ll discover how the Dutch have been battling and working with water for centuries. From the very first wooden hand dredges to today’s ultra-modern trailing suction hopper dredgers—which are used worldwide to reclaim palm islands and build ports—this museum shows how a small country made a big impact by moving millions of cubic meters of sand and silt.