Discover Hengelo: Technology, History and Green Experiences

Hengelo combines technological history, urban history, culture and green open spaces. In the city and its surroundings, you will find museums, a protected townscape, parks, water-based activities, a Schouwburg and a goods market.

Technology and Urban History

The Oyfo Techniekmuseum is located in the former Hazemeijer factory in Hengelo. Its interactive technology exhibitions include games and a machine hall. At the Inventor’s Table, visitors can build their own robot using various materials. The machine hall and robot building complement the playful exhibitions with two further concrete facets of technology.

Museum Hengelo is dedicated to the city’s cultural-historical development. Its collections range from finds belonging to the region’s first inhabitants to objects from the rise of industry in the 19th century. Multimedia presentations give visitors a clear and well-structured overview of Hengelo’s history. Oyfo and Museum Hengelo therefore focus on different aspects: technology is contrasted with a cultural-historical view of the city.

Tuindorp and Green Spaces

Tuindorp ’t Lansink has been a protected townscape since 17 October 2003. The Tuindorp Route leads through the Tuindorp ’t Lansink district in Hengelo.

Weusthagpark is a 200-hectare green park in Hengelo. The Weusthag and De Belder parks are also located in the immediate vicinity of Hengelo. Hagmolen Park and Brummelhuisheide Park are situated in the surrounding area of Hengelo.

Tuindorpbad is a bathing pond more than 100 years old, with nostalgic changing cabins. Twentebad has a covered 50-metre sports pool, so visitors can swim there even in less favourable weather. The bathing pond and sports pool thus represent historical and sporting water-based activities, respectively.

Culture, Market and Nearby Destinations

Schouwburg Hengelo offers a broad programme of cabaret, theatre, classical music and pop concerts. A goods market takes place in the centre of Hengelo every Wednesday and Saturday. This provides both a cultural programme and two fixed market days for planning your days.

Kasteel Twickel, a castle, is located in the surroundings of Hengelo. De Zwanenhof, a monastery, is also located in the area. ’t Venster is a church in the immediate vicinity of Hengelo, while the Grote Kerk is a church in the surrounding area of the city. In addition to museums and the Schouwburg, castles, monasteries and churches therefore form part of the cultural character of the area around Hengelo.

For planning your days, the goods market, with its fixed days of the week, and the covered sports pool, which can be used in less favourable weather, provide concrete points of reference. The museum, district route, park and cultural programme each offer different ways to spend your days in Hengelo. The locations range from the city centre to destinations in the immediate vicinity and the surrounding area of Hengelo.

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