MISSION 

The Zeeuws Museum deploys art and heritage for a resilient society in which everyone matters.

VISION

Climate change, migration, ageing, a faltering democracy and increasing polarisation: the challenges we face as a society are huge and demand that we remain adaptable. To respond appropriately to these changes, it is important that we are able to reflect, to learn to deal with contradictions and to search for what connects us. Because only a resilient society can absorb shocks and find a new balance in an unstable world.

The collection of the Zeeuws Museum charts historical developments and tells stories about society. We see the museum as a place where you open yourself up to different ways of looking at that society. You learn to transport yourself to another period, another world, and to see things from different perspectives. By using and sharing the collection actively, we ensure that people continue to identify with it and that new networks and communities can also use it for their development. We do that in the following ways:

ZM welcomes

The Zeeuws Museum brings people from different backgrounds and generations together. Everyone is welcome to take part.

ZM meets

We are open to other perspectives because we believe this broadens our vision and makes us more resilient in a rapidly changing world.

ZM challenges

The museum uses its collection as a source of inspiration. We use the knowledge, techniques and stories behind the collection to generate new ideas and applications. We use art and our imagination to envision a new common future.

ZM allows you to blossom

The Zeeuws Museum is a guide that helps you to live more creatively and with more attention to others and your environment: a tool you use regularly to keep your mind nimble and enrich your everyday life.

policy plan

The Zeeuws Museum aims to preserve, open up and multiply the heritage of Zeeland. By constantly creating new frameworks for the collection with the help of artists and designers, the museum serves a wide audience while at the same time contributing to the creation of tomorrow's heritage. Read more in the 2021 - 2024 policy plan.