40th anniversary photos - (part 8) a trip around the museum
We didn't know much about the Openlucht Museum beforehand, but
were amazed at the size of the place when we arrived. There is a tram service
(below) which runs around the site, stopping at various attractions.
Before boarding the tram, I took this shot of the concourse area
inside the entrance. Most of the R4's were lined up here, and you can only see
a fraction of them in this picture. Others were parked in the centre of the
museum grounds near the windmills, whilst some like ourselves had to remain
outside in the car park, as we had to get away early. So altogether, including
the odd few that joined in the previous day but didn't turn up at the museum
on the Sunday, there must have been 200 or more Renault 4's of all shapes and
sizes that attended the event during the whole weekend.
This one of the concourse was taken on board the tram as we set
off. The main building behind included an exhibition of the history of the R4,
showing advertising and promotional material from the last 4 decades.
One of the stops on the tram ride took us to this row of houses,
each of which contains interiors and scenes from a different decade in Dutch
life. I'm informed this R4 was donated by the Dutch R4 Club to the museum a
couple of years prior as a permanent exhibit. It has the number plate 'R4 Club'
and is an old 1960's model. It was parked outside our favourite of the 4 houses
- the sixties house, which had an array of fab furnishings inside.
