Deventer - Weigh-House

(Local Name: Waag) The most striking building on Deventer's Brink is the Late Gothic Weigh-House (Waag, 1528-31), with a handsome external staircase. The Weigh-House, together with the adjoining House of the Three Herrings (De Drie Haringen, 1575), has been occupied since 1915 by the Municipal Museum of Antiquities, with a variety of exhibits illustrating the history of the town and surrounding area. On the outside wall hangs a copper cauldron in which counterfeiters used to be executed by being boiled in oil or water.