Jan and Sjut's house
A peat merchant built the house in 1777. Jan and Sjut lived here until 1955. They ran a small grocery and delivered milk; Jan also cut reeds, worked as a barber and laboured on farms. They wove Earnewâld floor mats from rushes, called kokels in Frisian, which gave the museum its name. Sjut wanted the house and its contents to remain as they were and become a simple museum. It is Earnewâld's oldest museum.
Four rooms
In the old room, the front room remains furnished as it was when Jan and Sjut lived there with their nine children, including two box beds and a rush mat. You can buy sweets in the little grocery. The Jan Weima room displays peat carvings by Jan Weima of Oudega, who carved biblical scenes from long pieces of peat. The Duivelkeamer contains old tools used by peat cutters, fishers, reed cutters and farmers. Cornelis Frederik Helffrich, known as the duvel fan Earnewâld, lived here until 1903; he was a boat trader and herb gatherer. A small display concerns neighbour Pieter Tibbesma (1910–2001).