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Lecture Verhalen van de Schans – Liquid Time organised by Museum Zaanse Tijd | 21 October 2025 Zaans Museum

The lecture Verhalen van de Schans, organised by Museum Zaanse Tijd, will take place on Tuesday, 21 October 2025, at the Zaans Museum. Three speakers: Hans van den Ende, Peter Tange and Jord Homan will take the audience on a journey through stories about time, rhythm and experience: from the famous “Zaans kwartiertje” (Zaan quarter of an hour) to life without a clock. An inspiring evening that shows how people used to deal with time differently and invites us to reflect on our own pace of life.

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Lecture Verhalen van de Schans – Liquid Time at Museum Zaanse Tijd | 21 October 2025

Outside, tonight, 21 October 2025, is a new moon, and in five days, winter will begin. Nature guides us, and we guide it with clocks and calendars. How does that affect us?

Modern people make one plan after another to “get the most out of their day”. Every free hour seems useful and exchangeable. But sooner or later, everyone discovers that we live according to the clock, but not all time feels the same. Some hours fly by, others pass agonisingly slowly. We worry about how we deal with time, but how does time deal with us? Tonight, three stories show that time is divisible, elastic and… fluid.

Speakers

Hans van den Ende (director of Museum Zaanse Tijd)
On the division of time: back to a period when hours were not all the same length, with a rare clock that adjusted to the length of the day.

Peter Tange (former mayor of Wormerland)
On time culture by region and the Zaan variant: what is a “Zaans kwartiertje” (Zaan quarter of an hour)?

Jord Homan (writer and time expert)
On the perception of time and his experiment to live without a clock for a year: what does that teach us about rest, rhythm and attention?

How do you experience the fluidity of time? And what does that tell us? Let’s discuss it together!

Practical information

When: Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Time: 7:30–9:30 p.m.
Location: Zaans Museum, Schansend 7, Zaandam
Admission: €10
The lecture will be presented in Dutch

Registration (limited number of places)

Send an email to info@mnuurwerk.nl and reserve your place by transferring €10 per person to NL20 ABNA 0471 0557 16 in the name of Stichting Museum van het Nederlandse Uurwerk, stating “vloeibare tijd” (liquid time). Your registration will only be confirmed after payment.