Mapping Modernity

21. Veluwezoom

25 October 2023

Veluwezoom National Park

The ‘Veluwezoom’ becomes the Netherlands’ first national park in 1930. Natuurmonumenten aims not only to protect endangered areas but also to make visitors know and love nature better. By 1939, there are already ninety state nature monuments spread throughout the Netherlands.

Vereniging tot Behoud van Natuurmonumenten in Nederland Het Nationale Park 'Veluwezoom', Amsterdam 1939. Coll. S/T V.2378, 75 x 70.5 cm