The One Planet show
Interactive stations for each of the seventeen goals.
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The Museon is a museum about people, the earth and science, designed from the ground up for families and schools — and among the best things to do in The Hague with children. Its permanent exhibition, One Planet, is built on the United Nations' seventeen Sustainable Development Goals: food, water, energy, climate, equality. Each goal has interactive stations, displays and real objects from the museum's collection — fossils, ethnographic pieces, scientific instruments — instead of explanatory text. The choice is deliberate: The Hague is the city of international courts and organisations, and the museum presents global questions to children in a language they follow. It merged in 2021 with the neighbouring Omniversum into a single institution, so a combined ticket is now the norm. The building is in the museum quarter near the Kunstmuseum and Panorama Mesdag.
Interactive stations for each of the seventeen goals.
Fossils and instruments instead of text panels.
Stadhouderslaan 37, 2517 The Hague
The OmniversumThe Omniversum is a dome cinema in The Hague's museum quarter, among the first o1 minute walk4.2
Kunstmuseum Den HaagEarth's largest Mondrian holding — three hundred works closing with Victory Boog1 minute walk4.5
KM21 Contemporary ArtKM21 is the contemporary art space within The Hague's Kunstmuseum complex, known2 minutes walk4.3
Fotomuseum Den HaagThe Fotomuseum Den Haag is part of the Kunstmuseum complex — the building design3 minutes walk4.4
Park SorghvlietSorghvliet is a historic park between central The Hague and Scheveningen, and am9 minutes walk4.5Madurodam in the morning — the whole of the Netherlands at miniature scale, and the city's most successful thing with small children. Then the Museon and Omniversum in the afternoon in the museum quarter. If time remains, Scheveningen beach in the evening. Trams connect all three directly. For older children swap Madurodam for the Louwman car museum.