Emmen Discovery Tour: The Zoo Moved, the Brink Stayed

Marktplein

The Marktplein is a public square, free for everyone. It used to be the brink, the village green, of Emmen when it was still an esdorp, a farming village on hi…

Grote Kerk

The square is public, and the church itself is open on service and concert days. The Grote Kerk is at Schoolstraat 5, on the Marktplein. The church hall you se…

Rensenpark

Rensenpark, on the Hoofdstraat, is a public park with free entry. The Noorder Dierenpark zoo opened here in the 1930s in the garden of Willem Oosting's parents…

Museum of Contemporary Tibetan Art

The Museum of Contemporary Tibetan Art, at Hoofdstraat 16C in Rensenpark, has paid exhibition rooms; the park around it is public. It was founded back then by…

Raadhuisplein

The Raadhuisplein is a public square, free to visit. It is the rebuilt civic heart of town, between the old village green and the new theatre. The shops around…

Atlas Theater

The outside of the Atlas Theater, at Raadhuisplein 100, is public; shows and the box office are paid. The theatre opened in 2016 as part of the rebuilding of t…