Nine panoramas were made, with the kind permission and assistance of Piet Beertema, one of the technicians of Museum De Cruquius.
Click the images below for photographs and Flash panoramas of nine different locations
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Location 1: Engine room with the large Cruquius engine
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Location 6: Engine room, view from outside
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Location 2: As 1, different viewpoint
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Location 7: Cruquius engine: the balance beams
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Location 3: As 1, different viewpoint
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Location 8: Top of the building, above the balance beams
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Location 4: Cruquius engine: lower part in basement
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Location 9: Surroundings of the Cruquius, seen from the roof
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Location 5: as 4, different viewpoint
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Of related interest: Museum Stoomgemaal Halfweg , the oldest operational steam-powered paddle-wheel pumping station in the world. Piet Beertema, curator of the museum, recently invited me to make a series of panoramas of this beautiful monument |
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Updated: 20 July 2011 © 2010, Arie de Ruiter esitd1@xs4all.nl