Zuiderzee Museum in Holland

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About an hour from Amsterdam, you can immerse yourself in real living history, if you plan to spend a day in the country at the authentic Zuiderzee Museum in Enkhuizen  (www.zuiderzeemuseum.nl/en/home) which covers Dutch life from 1850-1932. The area was created with barrier dams and the reclamation of land, and then whole towns were moved here.

There’s a fishing harbour forming a coastal village with its stilt houses, a Church district with the sail-maker, barber, coopery, smithy, school – and a sweet shop which is still open.  The canal area has a wood-turner, paint workshop, pharmacy and theatre, and near the nature area – a working steam laundry – and yes, there’s both a dike and a windmill. Nearby, there’s an indoor museum in an old warehouse with a collection of wooden ships from the Dutch West India Company and some new art.

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