Museum De Timmerwerf

The Timmerwerf is a museum and national monument in De Lier. The building dates from 1642, but there are parts that come from the first quarter of the 15th century. At that time the Leien Huis stood on this spot: a stone house with slates on the roof. The house was known at the time as one of the most expensive houses in the village.

The carpentry business consists of a carpentry workshop located on Main Street, which dates from the first half of the seventeenth century. Against this is a house and a storage room built, both from the eighteenth century.

Between 1642 and 1995, the carpenter's trade was practiced continuously in the building.

The then municipality of De Lier bought the building and yard in 1996 and made them available to the De Timmerwerf Foundation. In 1997 the building was given the status of a national monument. After a thorough restoration in 1998, the carpenter's store has been converted into a carpentry museum. In the large attic above the house, changing exhibitions are held about the carpentry trade, the history of De Lier or other related subjects. In the backyard, in the former wood shed from the middle of the 19th century, situated on the small river Lee, a teashop has been established.