KattenKabinet (Cat Cabinet)
Quirky museum in a 1667 canal house devoted entirely to feline art, from Picasso to Rembrandt.
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This guide to the KattenKabinet in Amsterdam tells the story of Bob Meijer, whose grief over his ginger tomcat John Pierpont Morgan led him to fill a seventeenth-century canal house with cat-themed art. You'll hear about the increasingly absurd birthday tributes friends gave the cat over the years, and hunt for works by Picasso, Rembrandt, and Toulouse-Lautrec tucked among the baroque rooms. Meijer's family still lives above the collection today.
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