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This shoemaker's workshop, "The stock exchange", was built by the cobbler Johan Danielsen Myren in Spjelkavik in 1920. Myren had done his apprenticeship with Petter Spjelkavik, known as "Petter Shoemaker", in 1917, and he ran his cobbler's shop from this little cottage for over 60 years. Locally the cottage was known as "The Stock Exchange", because it was here that people would meet to catch up on the latest news. During WW2 (1940-45), this was where people found out how the war was going, and where illegal publications changed hands. The cottage was moved to Sunnmøre Museum in 1982, and instead of being taken down and put back up again, it was transported whole on the back of a truck.