Netherlands · Provincie Gelderland · Arnhem
Alteveer, Arnhem — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Alteveer is the Arnhem district next to the Netherlands Open Air Museum, the Royal Burgers' Zoo and Burgers' Ocean.
About Alteveer
Where to stay in Alteveer
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Alteveer works for a zoo day. A bed within reach of the Royal Burgers' Zoo and the Netherlands Open Air Museum saves the morning journey that anyone sleeping in the Arnhem core has to make, and the streets go back to being residential once the gates shut. Burgers' Ocean belongs to the same outing.
Evenings run quiet.
About Alteveer
What are the main landmarks in Alteveer?
Two attractions dominate. The Royal Burgers' Zoo and the Netherlands Open Air Museum both stand at the edge of Alteveer, and Burgers' Ocean belongs to the same cluster of gates, paths and car parks that draws visitors out from the Arnhem core. Older fabric survives in fragments.
The Vier arbeidershuisjes and Hazegrietje hold protected status on a far smaller scale.
What is the history of Alteveer?
Names do the recording here. The Vier arbeidershuisjes and Hazegrietje hold their protected entries as the older layer of Alteveer, small houses kept on the register while far larger neighbours, the Royal Burgers' Zoo and the Netherlands Open Air Museum, took over the traffic and the signposts. Scale shifted, then.
What Arnhem protects and what Arnhem visits are no longer the same buildings.
Where is Alteveer?
Alteveer is an Arnhem district where housing gives way to the grounds of the Royal Burgers' Zoo and the Netherlands Open Air Museum.
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Updated August 2026