The Third Floor

En route to freedom

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The development of the bicycle

How did bikes evolve? Where did the Netherlands fit in around 1900? And what role did Fongers of Groningen play?

Podcast

The design of a bicycle path

Bicycle paths have a major impact on cycling culture in the Netherlands and on what the Netherlands looks like. What is involved in designing a cycle path?

Podcast

De Fiets Is Niets

The Netherlands is known worldwide as a cycling country, but this didn’t happen overnight in the Netherlands either. For a while it even seemed that the car would win at the expense of the bicycle.

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No sign yet of the end of the bicycle

To some people, a bike is just a simple form of transport. To others, cycling is a way of life.

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From the exhibition

En route to freedom

In other countries, the bike tended to be associated after the turn of the century with the working class. Queen Wilhelmina’s penchant for cycling meant that in the Netherlands, by contrast, bikes continued to be used by all levels of society. They have been seen as ‘typically Dutch’ ever since.