Interested in the history of psychiatry? Then I got a tip for you: the Pest- en Dolhuys in Haarlem. It’s a place where they used to treat the mentally ill as well plague sufferers. Recently it re-opened as a museum.
I finally found the perfect opportunity to get a look at it when my friend Mascha was here last Sunday to visit me. Not that she’s crazy or anything – although she did bring me a microwave oven as a present… - but she’s like the best person you can imagine to go to a museum with.
I can tell you a lot about the museum, its really unbelievable how we treated the crazy up till, well, just decades ago. But you better visit the museum's own website:
pest and dolhuys
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