Rijksmuseum     review

Address
Stadhouderskade 42
Phone
020-6747047

By far the largest museum in the Netherlands, housed in a monumental neo-renaissance building disigned by PJH Cuypers. The Rijksmuseum (State Museum) draws over one million visitors a year, and ranks as a major European museum of Western European painting and decorative arts. Currently the rijksmuseum is the subject of an extensive renovation, and work is scheduled to be completed no sooner then 2010. Until then the museum is showing the finest works from its 17th century collection in the redesigned Philips Wing, under the title "The Masterpieces". More than 400 highlights from the Golden Age are on display, amongst which of course Rembrants Night Watch. Besides rembrandts there are paintings by Frans Hals, Paulus Potter, Jacob van Ruysdael, Jan Steen and Johannes Vermeer. There are landscapes, seascapes, individual portraits, domestic scenes and Dutch still lifes which together give a good overview of Golden Age life in the Netherlands.

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