The Rijksmuseum Fellowship Programme gives successful candidates the exceptional opportunity to conduct part of their research at the museum. Our aims here are to support first-rate academic research, ...

Hidde Wierda (CSB de Cuserstraat in Amsterdam) is vandaag uitgeroepen tot Geschiedenisdocent van 2024. Hidde Wierda is de winnaar van de verkiezing Geschiedenisdocent van het Jaar, die voor de tiende ...

Korean artist Lee Ufan describes his work as ‘art of the encounter’. Find time this summer for your very own calm encounter with Lee Ufan’s sculptures, among the hustle and bustle of museum square.

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Rembrandt’s largest, most famous canvas was made for the Arquebusiers guild hall. This was one of several halls of Amsterdam’s civic guard, the city’s militia and police. Rembrandt was the first to ...

L'emblématique Rijksmuseum, situé au cœur d'Amsterdam, est l'une des choses à voir absolument si vous visitez les Pays-Bas. Plongez dans l'art et l'histoire des Pays-Bas avec des chefs-d'œuvre de ...

Early photographers discovered that the camera could do something the human eye could not: it could capture and analyse rapid movement. And it revealed that artists had always depicted galloping ...

Open this page on your mobile phone. The app will guide you step by step along these artworks in the museum. The app will guide you step by step along these artworks in the museum.

The support, a plain-weave canvas, has been lined. The tacking edges have not been preserved, and cusping is only visible at the bottom. The paint was applied over a white ground, thinly in areas such ...

A swan fiercely defends its nest against a dog. In later centuries this scuffle was interpreted as a political allegory: the white swan was thought to symbolize the Dutch statesman Johan de Witt ...

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De Rijksmuseum winkel en Het Café zijn geopend van 9 tot 18 uur. Deze zijn tot 17 uur alleen toegankelijk met een entreeticket voor het museum. Tussen 17 en 18 uur kun je zonder entreeticket naar ...