Expositions

In 2026, Museum Collectie Brands will celebrate its fifteenth anniversary. We will be celebrating this throughout the year, culminating in the anniversary exhibition Everyone Collects. Collecting is something we all do — big or small, everyday or extraordinary. This exhibition focuses not only on the objects themselves, but above all on the people behind them and […]

To mark its 15th anniversary, the Museum Collectie Brands is organising the Jans Brands Art Competition. With this special competition, the museum is paying a lasting tribute to its founder, Jans Brands (1932–2019). For this occasion, the museum asked the artists of Atelier Kunstvereniging Emmen (AKE) to create a work of art inspired by Jans […]

The theme of collecting is a recurring theme throughout the anniversary year. This is also the case in this exhibition, for which we have joined forces with AKE Emmen (Atelier Kunstvereniging Emmen). Various artists have explored the theme of collecting and created some truly remarkable works of art. An impression of some of the artworks:

In 2026, Museum Collectie Brands will celebrate its fifteenth anniversary. We will be celebrating this throughout the year, culminating in the anniversary exhibition Everyone Collects. Collecting is something we all do — big or small, everyday or extraordinary. This exhibition focuses not only on the objects themselves, but above all on the people behind them […]

In prelude to a major permanent exhibition on the industrial heritage of the municipality of Emmen, Museum Collectie Brands presents four pilot exhibitions in 2024 & 2025. These are small-scale exhibitions. The fourth industrial heritage pilot exhibition focuses on the theme ‘textile’. The companies featured are amongst others Bendien, Danlon, Spanjaard and EHCO-KLM. How it […]

In prelude to a major permanent exhibition on the industrial heritage of the municipality of Emmen, Museum Collectie Brands presents four pilot exhibitions in 2024 & 2025. These are small-scale exhibitions. The third industrial heritage pilot exhibition focuses on the theme ‘metal’. The companies featured are Rademakers Foundry, Vossebelt and Draka. Rademakers Gieterij After the […]

Discover the exhibition ‘Man, you are a vain creature!’, which focuses on the evolution of beauty and self-expression. This exhibition offers an overview of how clothes, jewellery, make-up, perfume, hairstyles and tattoos have changed over the centuries. Explore the different ways people have beautified themselves and the cultural significance attached to them. From the well-made […]

In prelude to a major permanent exhibition on the industrial heritage of the municipality of Emmen, Museum Collectie Brands presents four pilot exhibitions in 2024 & 2025. These are small-scale exhibitions. The second industrial heritage pilot exhibition focuses on the theme “synthetic fibers”. The focus will be on AKU / Enka and the companies that […]

In prelude to a major permanent exhibition on the industrial heritage of the municipality of Emmen, Museum Collectie Brands presents four pilot exhibitions in 2024 & 2025. These are small-scale exhibitions. The first industrial heritage pilot exhibition focuses on the theme “electrical engineering”. The companies Industria and Nira (later Ericsson) will be featured. More information […]

On Friday the 7th of July, it was announced that King Willem-Alexander and his family will celebrate King’s Day 2024 in Emmen. Residents of the municipality of Emmen are proud of this, albeit with Drenthian modesty. So is Museum Collectie Brands. Founder of the museum, Jans Brands, has also collected objects related to the Dutch […]

Every year we look forward to it, the December month. A period of holidays, festivities and cosiness. It is also the month of counting down to a new year. Who does not know the advent calendar where behind each box is a chocolate, present or even a small amount of money if you are lucky. […]

Jantje Johanna Jalving (1923-2022), better known as Janny Jalving, painted throughout her whole life. Drenthe with its old farms was her favourite subject. That is, the really old farms, which were sometimes already in poor condition when Janny Jalving laid eyes on them. She loved that, because “life had passed over them”. Anyone familiar with […]