Museum de Oude Wolden

Museum de Oude Wolden (English: Museum The Old Wolds), abbreviated as MOW, is a regional museum in the village of Bellingwolde in the Netherlands. The museum focuses on art and history of the regions of Oldambt and Westerwolde in the east of the province of Groningen.The museum opened on 10 August 1973. In the first decades, it primarily exhibited historical objects documenting everyday life. In the late 1990s, the museum started to exhibit artworks of artist collective De Ploeg and magic realist painter Lodewijk Bruckman. Since 2012, it has a permanent display of paintings by Bruckman and temporary exhibitions.The municipality of Bellingwedde employs the museum staff and provides most of the museum’s budget. From 2003 to 2012, the museum had around 1,800 to 3,200 visitors per year. In 2013 and 2014, the museum had around 4,500 visitors. It is one of the lesser-visited museums in Groningen.