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Green Cross health centre
The smell of public healthcare in the 1950s.
Take in the smell of disinfectant and polish. Hear the babies crying and the sounds of someone cheerfully taking a bath. Here the Green Cross health centres of the 1950s are brought vividly to life. Less than 100 years ago babies, children and adults died every day from diseases that have now been virtually eradicated. That those times are now behind us is largely thanks to former Dutch Prime Minister Willem Drees and his four cabinets, who went to great lengths to promote preventive healthcare, as well as to the unrelenting efforts of the sisters of the Green Cross, who looked after sick people at home, distributed information and helped young parents to keep their children healthy. In 1998 this Green Cross health centre was sawn into thirty large pieces and reconstructed at the museum.
1954. Relocated here in 1998.