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The Mastenbroek Steam Pumping Station was built in 1855 near the Veneriete drainage canal. The steam pumping station was intended to drain the Mastenbroekerpolder. The pumping station completed this task until 1961, when an electric pumping station took over. The pumping station underwent a large-scale restoration around the year 2000. Cracks in the walls were discovered in 2000. These cracks had arisen because the foundation piles of the pumping station had been damaged. A restoration plan was devised in 2002 and implemented between 2003 and 2010. The pumping station is now in good condition both underground and above ground. There is also now a museum and a visitor center located in the pumping station. The old pumping station has been restored to its former glory and it is still working. Pay a visit to the museum to see the pumping station in action. In the associated visitor center, learn more about the hydrological history of the area and its inhabitants through exhibits, videos and slides.

In this museum you will get to know life on the farm as it was customary on the Kampereiland about a hundred years ago. Kampereiland has traditionally been a true meadow area in the IJsseldelta. The museum is located in a nineteenth-century terp farm. Here you will find, among other things, an ever-changing exhibition of traditional hats and costumes. In the 'room over de heerd' you can see a complete bedroom interior in Art Deco style from 1930. You can also see what a box bed, a fireplace with an old stove, a churning mill and old cow stables look like. In the kitchen you will find the associated attributes of the past: wecking stuff and skim vats for the milk. Until the Afsluitdijk was realized in 1932, farmers had to be constantly prepared for flooding. The cows regularly got wet feet in the stables and the farmer got wet feet. You can also find more information in the museum about the origin of Kampereiland on the basis of map material.