Deventer's Weigh House dominates the eastern side of the Brink. Built in 1528 in late-Gothic style with a stepped gable and an open ground-floor arcade where carts could be driven in for weighing, it is one of the most-photographed buildings in the city. The giant copper kettle still hanging on the front wall is a local mystery — versions of the story include the public execution of a counterfeiter and a much duller medieval taxation symbol.
Inside, the Waag now houses the Museum De Waag (also called the Historisch Museum), which covers the history of Deventer and the wider IJssel region — Hanseatic trade, the Devotio Moderna, the sieges of the Eighty Years' War, the rise of book printing. It is small, well-curated and easy to combine with a coffee on the Brink. Don't miss the cellars, where some of the original weighing infrastructure survives.