Museum Giethoorn 't Olde Maat Uus
Authentic thatched farmhouse museum with a boathouse, fisherman's cottage and peat-cutting stories.
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This guide to Museum Giethoorn 't Olde Maat Uus, an old farmhouse in Giethoorn, starts with a simple question about the village's bridges and follows it down into the peat underfoot. It travels from thirteenth-century farmers and a strange find in the marsh to the turf cutters who worked this land for generations, and the storms that came after them. Best heard standing in front of the farmhouse, with the canal at your back.
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