40th anniversary - Arnhem 2001: 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 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 R4s 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 during the previous day but didn't turn up at the museum on the Sunday, there must have been a good 200 or more Renault 4s of all shapes and sizes that attended the event over the whole weekend.

This picture of the concourse was taken on board the tram as we set off on its circuit of the grounds. The main building behind included an exhibition of the history of the R4, showing advertising and promotional material from the previous four 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 that 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 1960s model. It was parked outside our favourite of the four houses - the Sixties house, which had an array of fab furnishings inside.