The Historian · Femke · Amsterdam
De Waag
Every guild had a room here. I stand on Nieuwmarkt and point out which turret belonged to the masons, the smiths, the painters.
The city's oldest surviving gate, 1488, later the weigh house where guilds tested goods. Rembrandt painted an anatomy lesson in its upper theatre.
— Femke, The Historian
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