Cold weather gear for museum volunteers

The Dutch National Museum of Dredging at Sliedrecht is unique and exhibits a collection of historical and modern models of dredgers and dredging equipment, photographs and dredged items of all sorts. The roots of the Dutch dredging industry, which brought forth market leaders Boskalis and Van Oord, lie in the town of Sliedrecht, where both Mr Bos and Mr Kalis once lived. The Museum itself is in the original home of the Volker family, the first dredging majors.

The Museum operates solely on its volunteers, subscribers and subsidy donors. Much of the maintenance work has to be done outside, as the Museum possesses several large machines, such as an original steam powered dredger. Damen’s decision to supply the maintenance crew and their colleagues with some warm clothing was a generous response to some particularly severe winter weather.