Subcollections
Geology
Rocks form the largest collection of the museum. The collection consists of thousands of erratics/field stones from North Netherlands, rocks from Scandinavia, limestone fossils, and minerals. Volunteers have gathered rocks from solid rock in Scandinavia over the years and brought them together at Schokland. These so-called 'parent rocks' are important for ice age geology, petrological and petrographic research. It is the largest museum study collection of Scandinavian rocks in the Netherlands.
In the 1960s, the then-known amateur geologists Pieter van der Lijn and Bernhard Boelens bequeathed their private collections to the municipality of Noordoostpolder. Since then, their historical collections have been housed in Museum Schokland.
The museum's collection of ice age mammal fossils comprises several hundred items, mainly from the IJssel Delta. Furthermore, the museum has small collections of mollusks and soil profiles from Noordoostpolder and Flevoland.
Cultural history
The collection is related to the history of the Zuiderzee area and that of Schokland and Noordoostpolder in particular. The artifacts vary from everyday objects and tools, pottery, ship models, anchors, coins, nautical objects, wall tiles, drainage pipes, parts of aircraft wrecks to a high-water cannon.
Archaeology
A small but special collection of finds from the world heritage site Schokland and from Noordoostpolder. The highlight is a number of prehistoric human footprints dating back approximately 4000 years. They belong to the oldest human tracks in Europe.
Art
Several dozen historical and modern art objects. The varied collection consists of paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sculptures made from various materials.
In addition, the museum has an extensive library and documentation specifically on ice age geology and the history of the Zuiderzee area, Schokland, and Noordoostpolder.
The image archive consists of several thousand (historical) photos, slides, and a small collection of films and documentaries.