The Alkmaar cheese market

• Visit the Cheese market
  • When and where
  • Accessibility and Parking
  • Arriving by public transport
  • Tour coaches
  • Cheese Market for groups
  • Dutch Cheese Museum
  • Cheesefarms in and around Alkmaar
  • Order the Cheese Market Magazine here
• Ins and outs of the cheesemarket
  • History of the cheesemarket
  • Putting up the cheeses
  • Cheese father calls the roll
  • Opening of the market
  • Cheese inspection
  • Price bargaining
  • Weighing the cheese
  • Carrying cheese
  • The end of the cheese market
• Cheese carriers’ guild
  • Alkmaar cheese carriers’ guild
  • The forwarding companies
  • Traditions, customs, and habits
  • Positions of the cheese market and in the guild
  • Cheesemaids
• Cheese in the Netherlands
  • A piece of history
  • From Cow to Cheese
  • Cheese types
• More about Alkmaar
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Culture &,museums

There are a number of museums in the city in addition to the cheese museum:

• Alkmaar municipal museum, Canadaplein 1. Learn all there is to know about the history of the city and its surroundings. For openinghours click here.
• “De Boom” beer museum, Houttil 1; located in a former 17th century brewery, this museum also accommodates a public house. For openinghours click here. 
• Dutch Kachelmuseum (heater museum), Bierkade 10: admire 75 heaters from the period between 1900 until today in the Dutch heater museum at the Bierkade. For openinghours click here.

More museums & attractions click here

The city walk by monuments takes in the most beautiful spots of Alkmaar. The 1.5-hour route leads you by courts of almshouses, museums, and monuments. You can order the citywalk by monuments at the vvv e-shop.

For a visit to the cinema, concert or the theatre Alkmaar is the right place to be. You can visit the following cinemas and theatres:

• Minerva Bioscoop (5 zalen), Doelenveld 1, tel. 072-5113641.
• Filmhuis en theater Provadja, Verdronkenoord 12, tel. 072-5110136.
• Theater de Vest, Canadaplein 2, tel. 072-5489999/072-5489888.
• Poppodium Atlantis, Breedstraat 33, tel. 072-5118390.