Winner for my favourite (and also, most ridiculous) tourist attraction in Amsterdam has to be Katten Kabinet, which is a "museum" of cat things. The guy who started it all had a cat called JP Morgan who he liked to buy/make presents for. Things like American dollar bills with the cat's face on them:
As with many things in life, what seemed like a harmless interest gradually turned into an obsssion, and before you know it, you have a canal house full of things that have cats on them. Paintings, ads, sculptures, pinball machines, you name it, you have it. And eventually, people are paying 6 Euros to come in and see it all.
The "museum" is just room after room covered in cat art. Plus, if you look closely in this picture, you can see there are real cats who live there, too. They pointedly ignore everyone who comes through, which makes them just like every other cat ever.
There's even some pre-Colombian cat art.
I especially liked how they had cat sculptures sitting on top of the heaters. Because that's where cats go.
A pinball machine full of lucky cats - each one makes a different sound when the ball hits it.
And then it gets weird. There's a stuffed cat made out of fabric that has cats on it
and a cat that looks like something a kid would make out of toilet rolls
And a Picasso that clearly Pablo did not want the public to see
... right next to this ... thing ....
And this.
In summary: skip the Rijksmuseum, the queues are shorter at Katten Kabinet and you still get to see something Rembrandt did.
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