Tales of Veenhuizen

Veenhuizen and its specific history can easily remain a closed book to the non-Dutch speaking visitor. This became clear to the South-Korean Minseong Wang when he visited the village. Despite the international ambitions of village, almost everything from brochure to the explanatory texts in the museum, is written in Dutch. So in order to cater to the foreign visitors, Minseong created the book Tales of Veenhuizen, written in English. Tales of Veenhuizen is an illustrated book about the unique history of the heritage and cultivation of every aspect of Veenhuizen. In seventeen short stories, the history becomes more apparent on the basis of the moralist texts originating from the age of the Maatschappij van Weldadigheid (the Benevolent Society). Examples of these texts are Orde en Tucht (Order and Discipline), Werk en Bid (Work and Pray), and Rust Roest (Rest makes Rusty), that can be found everywhere on the house façades in Veenhuizen.