• Hands-on activities all day, from canoeing and archery to the Roman legion drill and crafts like felting a bracelet or making a candle at the beekeeper
• Book online to pay less, since tickets cost a little more at the gate, and the Museumkaart gets you in free on regular days
• Lunch inside the park at the medieval pancake house or the Roman inn, which serves wood-fired pizza and pasta

Archeon is an open-air archeology museum park where reconstructed houses show how people lived in the Netherlands from the hunter-gatherer era to the Middle Ages. Kids paddle a dugout canoe, march with the Roman legion, try archery and sword fighting in the medieval town of Gravendam, and sail on the Viking ship at Dorestad. Costumed staff work as bakers, smiths and craftspeople, and the Archeologiehuis shows the real finds.