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there. Some aspects of local
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A large variety of buildings are on display in the outdoor museum: wind mill, lime kilns, fish-smoking house, steam laundry, drugstore, pharmacy, basketmaker, blacksmith, cheese warehouse, school, and hairdresser's, amongst others. The harbor is a replica of its layout on Marken before enlargement
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Zuiderzee. The plans for a museum were put on hold as the threat of war rose (and as it subsequently broke out). In the summer of 1949 the first exhibition was set up in the
Drommedaris, the 16th century defensive tower in the harbour; this marked the birth of the indoor part of the museum.
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The museum village was set up to mimic the architecture and 'atmosphere' of villages around the former
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are represented. Most of the buildings are authentic—sometimes even transported in whole in a steel frame—while some, like the wharf and the house 'Siberie' from the
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her mother. Hailing from fish shop Bunte in Utrecht. Ceramics now shown in the indoor museum. Made by the Faience- and
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