Streekmuseum Schippersbeurs

The museum takes its name from the former Schippersbeurs, a building in Maasland style from the beginning of the 17th century. The building was built by the skipper and shipowner Jan Conincx. In the 1950s, an extensive excavation and survey was carried out in the east of the village of Elsloo. The researchers came across a settlement of which 95 buildings and a burial field with 113 graves could be traced. It was a Early Stone Age village where people lived from approximately 5300 to 4800 BC. In this regional museum you can view all kinds of objects that were removed from the ground during these excavations, such as earthenware pots and flint tools, but also excavations from Roman times. In addition to the excavations, you will find a large collection of objects from the history of the Limburg village on the Maas. See, for example, the traditional costume from Elsloo and the attributes used by craftsmen and farmers in the past. In the museum, an old village shop has been reconstructed with attributes from the period 1920 to 1950 and you will also find two original workers' houses from the 18th century.