Cats and Scammers and Robber Barons, Oh My!

Feline kitsch, that is, not "Cats," although now we wish that were in here too.

Good news! We’re going to Amsterdam today for a brand-new edition of Enter Through the Gift Shop, a feature whose previous examinations of interesting, entertaining, delightful or deranged object(s) at the world’s museum gift shops you can find here (we are still thinking about the Corn Palace in North Dakota). Thanks to a reader submission¹, we’ll be knocking on the door of the KattenKabinet, which Professor Wikipedia describes thusly:

The KattenKabinet ("Cat Cabinet") is an art museum in Amsterdam devoted to works depicting cats. The museum collection includes paintings, drawings, sculptures and other works of art by Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Corneille, Sal Meijer, Théophile Steinlen, and Jože Ciuha, among others.

The museum is housed in a canalside building at Herengracht 497, in the grand Gouden Bocht ("Golden Bend") of this canal. The owner lives on the second floor of the building with his family. There are some cats in the museum as well…. In 1985, the b…