Huis Verwolde Grand Tour on 20 September: 17.50 euro, or 4 euro with a Museumkaart

On Sunday 20 September at 11:00, Huis Verwolde in Laren, Gelderland runs a Grand Tour. The house dates from 1776 and the Van der Borch family lived in it for two hundred years, so the interior survives in its original state. This tour goes beyond the usual beletage and first floor: a guide opens the sanatorium room and the attics, normally shut, then the basement where the staff worked, finishing in the original kitchen that now serves as the tea room. Adults pay 17.50 euro and Museumkaart holders or GLK donors 4.00 euro. The same afternoon a one-hour garden tour costs 11.50 euro, and that one costs the same whether or not you hold a card. It suits anyone wanting a weekend plan that does not depend on the weather. Next step: book the 11:00 slot on the GLK page.

• What you actually get: a normal visit stops at the beletage and the first floor. This tour adds the sanatorium room and the attics, both normally shut, and the basement service rooms. The kitchen was never modernised and is where the tour ends, over something to drink. (source 1)
• Dates and place: after this Sunday morning the same tour runs on 4 October, Thursday 8 October, 18 October, 1 November, Saturday 14 November, 15 November and 6 December, which closes the series. The car park in front of the gate is free and has marked disabled bays. (source 1)
• Who it is for: people who already carry a Museumkaart and want to spend it on rooms they cannot otherwise enter, and anyone bringing older relatives or someone who would rather not walk far. The official page states neither how long the tour lasts nor which language the guide speaks, so ask first if your Dutch is limited. (source 1)
• Check before you go: on 18 September the online ticket widget failed to load on both pages, which say only that the system is temporarily unavailable and to try later or contact the estate, so do not leave booking to the day itself. The number is 0573 40 18 25 and the address is verwolde@glk.nl. The garden tour is cancelled above 30 degrees and ticket holders are told by email on the day. (source 2)

Work it out for yourself: the indoor tour is adults times 17.50 euro, or card holders and donors times 4.00 euro; the garden tour is heads times 11.50 euro whatever card you carry. Two adults with a Museumkaart doing both pay 2 times 4.00 plus 2 times 11.50, which is 31.00 euro; two adults without a card pay 2 times 17.50 plus 2 times 11.50, which is 58.00 euro. The point is that the card takes 13.50 euro per person off the indoor tour and nothing at all off the garden tour, on the same day at the same house. So if you only have time for one, card holders should take the 4.00 euro one first, and everybody else should decide plainly whether the 17.50 interior or the 11.50 garden is the thing they came for. (source 1, source 2)

Where

Huis Verwolde, Jonker Emilelaan 4, 7245 TL Laren (GLD)

When

Sunday 20 September 2026, starting at eleven in the morning

Price

Adults 17.50 euro・Museumkaart and GLK donors 4.00 euro

Booking

Through the GLK activity page; by phone or email while the widget is down

Note

Duration and guiding language are not stated・the afternoon garden tour is 11.50 euro with no card reduction・garden tour cancelled above 30 degrees

Hokimi field note: the 11:00 tour and the 13:30 garden tour do fit into one day, with well over two hours between them, and a card holder doing both pays 15.50 euro, less than a single full-price interior ticket. Laren is a small village with a thin bus service, so driving is easier here and parking costs nothing.