• Good on a rainy day since the park has 43 houses and buildings to duck into, plus restaurants serving pancakes and stone-oven pizza
• Activity pass for €5 lets kids make souvenirs to take home; every other activity is included with entry
• The gladiator show is a staged fight that may be too gory for the youngest kids, so check the day program before you sit down

Archeon is an open-air museum park of rebuilt houses and villages from Dutch history: a hunter-gatherer camp and early farms, the Roman border village of Trajectum ad Rhenum with its bathhouse, Viking-era Dorestad, and the 14th-century town of Gravendam. Costumed staff work in the craft houses, and the Roman museum shows original finds, with worktables where kids try archaeology themselves.