What a Collection at Hotel de Leeuw in Deventer!

Back last Fall when we took the Etty Hillesum walking tour of Deventer, The Netherlands, we were told of a Jewish baker family that tried to hide from the Nazis during WWII by moving the family to the attic of a house across the street. They did not keep a good eye on their children and a small daughter was seen peeking out of a window. I can imagine that some Dutch neighbor became richer (5 guilders per person?) by reporting the family to the Nazis and seeing them transported to a concentration camp. Sad, but probably true!

Well, we passed the bakery shop (now a coffee/tea shop)/hotel while out walking yesterday and stopped in for coffee and tea and delicious krentewegge (richly filled raisin bread). 

http://www.hoteldeleeuw.nl/hotel-english.html. Hotel de Leeuw

We had been told there was a museum on the location, and this is what we saw:

Hundreds of coffee mills

And more coffee mills.

There was a candy shop with little paper "punt"(point) bags and jars and bags full of candy.

Makes my teeth hurt to see these.

Shelves of tins of all shapes and sizes.

More tins.

Cookie (speculaas) boards.

Can you believe this collection?

Metal butter and chocolate molds on the left and wooden cookie molds above.

http://www.hoteldeleeuw.nl/hotel-english.html