Historisch Museum Den Briel

The Historisch Museum Den Briel is a Dutch museum located in Brielle. The museum turned into previously known as the Trompmuseum, after Brielle-born Maarten Tromp who defeated the Spanish fleet inside the Eighty Years' War. The museum was founded in 1912 by the government of Den Briel. In 1958 a charitable business enterprise supporting the museum was created. In 1998 the museum received a nationally recognized certification of best. The museum has two times suffered from robbery in latest records. In 2003 nine gold cash had been stolen and in 2009 thieves took an 18th-century clay pipe from the exhibition. The museum is organized largely chronologically and in part thematically. At ground degree a largely archaeological exhibition is on display.

This exhibition turned into thoroughly reorganized and elevated in 2007, adding most prominently a few lately discovered late medieval wax capsules. Apart from prehistorical, Roman and medieval Brielle the museum additionally gives Brielle for the duration of the Eighty Years' War and the Second World War. The museum is located interior Brielle's former weigh house and local jail, built in 1623. With old jail cells on show, the constructing itself is considered a part of the gathering.