Houseboat Museum
Converted nineteen-fourteen cargo barge turned museum, showing authentic canal-living interiors on the Prinsengracht.
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This guide to the Houseboat Museum in Amsterdam follows the Hendrika Maria, a 1914 cargo barge that hauled sand and coal along Amsterdam's canals for half a century before Vincent van Loon and his partner converted her into a home in 1967. You'll hear why they eventually opened their door to the strangers who kept asking questions, and how nearly three thousand houseboats came to line the city's canals after World War Two. Step below deck to see the two sleeping compartments kept just as they were.
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