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The most popular exhibits in the Volendam Museums, among local residents and tourists alike is the charming Volendam Room, representing a modest Dutch fisherman's cottage. The single room is living, dining, kitchen and bedroom all in one.  Not an inch of space is wasted and even the popular hole-in-the-wall bed serves for house potatoes, onions and similar  cupboards are built under the bed.

Among the items he collected in the Museum were Dutch clothing. The Dutch Room collection, as it is called, and which are declared as "impossible to replace," were to be sold as a complete collection. In 1940, when the Netherlands was invaded, Holland received a good bit of national publicity as a community of Dutch residents with the only Dutch museum in the U.S. As a result, the museum began receiving calls from people with Dutch items to sell or donate.

Hoteliers in Volendam invited young artists to come to Volendam to paint for the pleasure of the tourists.  They subsidized dozens of artists, whose paintings even today line the walls of the rambling Spander Hotel in Volendam.

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