Editing Marken (section)

==History==
===Early years===
Marken was an island in the [[Zuiderzee]].<ref>{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.markermuseum.nl/?page_id=142 Geschiedenis van Marken], Marker Museum. Retrieved 19 August 2015.</ref>

For some time during the later 19th and early 20th centuries, Marken and its inhabitants were the focus of considerable attention by [[folklorists]], [[ethnographers]] and [[physical anthropology|physical anthropologists]], who regarded the small fishing town as a relic of the traditional native culture that was destined to disappear as modernization of the Netherlands gained pace.<ref>H.W. Roodenburg, "Marken als relict: het samengaan van schilderkunst, toerisme, volkskunde en fysische antropologie rond 1900". ''Volkskundig Bulletin'' 25.2/3 (1999), 197-214.</ref> Among them were [[Johann Friedrich Blumenbach]] who examined a human skull from the island which he called [[Batavus genuinus]]; and was the Belgian painter [[Xavier Mellery]] who stayed in Marken at the request of [[Charles De Coster]]. Mellery was asked to create illustrative work and delivered several [[Intimism (art movement)|intimist]] works.

[[Cornelis Lely]]'s designs incorporated the island into a proposed [[Markerwaard]]. A partial dike, built in 1941 in the north, is the first phase of that project which was stopped by [[World War II]].

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File:Marken Island2.jpg|Girls in traditional costumes (circa 1900)
File:Eiland Marken - Visser 1900.jpg|Fisherman in traditional costume (circa 1900)
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===Recent times===
The island appeared as a location in the 1970 film [[Puppet on a Chain (film)|''Puppet on a Chain'']]. In 1983, the [[Marker Museum]] about the history of the island was opened.<ref>{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.markermuseum.nl/?page_id=69 Het Marker Museum], Marker Museum. Retrieved 18 August 2015.</ref> Marken was a separate municipality until 1991, when it was merged into [[Waterland]].<ref>{{Repertorium Nederlandse Gemeenten}}</ref>