Wim Pijbes, the Rijksmuseum's young director, sees his task as creating 'new experiences, new concepts, new thinking'. He says: 'A museum today is where you can go see some art, meet some nice people, ...

Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is no longer camera-shy. The museum launched a formal photography department in 1993 and has collected 200,000 images, but it has never shown them in an exhibition.

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, home to one of the world's greatest art collections, reopens to the public on Saturday April 13, after a mammoth 10-year US$489m renovation project. The exhibits have been ...

The Rijksmuseum is “The Museum of the Netherlands.” It was founded in 1800 and moved to Amsterdam in 1808. The building it’s in now was built in 1885 and it was the first thing I saw when I stepped ...

On View For the First Time Ever, the Rijksmuseum Is Showing All 400 of Its Rembrandts at Once. Take a Look Inside the Momentous Exhibition Tickets are flying for the once-in-a-lifetime tribute to ...

The Rijksmuseum’s show is an altogether different, almost hallucinogenic experience. We depart overwhelmed, having seemingly overdosed on Vermeer — “Vermeered,” you could say.

But despite the efforts of the Rijksmuseum to ensure that this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition can accommodate as many visitors as possible, many art lovers have been left disappointed. Within a ...

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam announced on Tuesday that among the treasured works to be featured in its expansive exhibition on Johannes Vermeer next year would be a painting, “Girl With a Flute ...

For almost four months now, the special exhibition galleries of the Rijksmuseum have been clogged with visitors, so many that you must often move single file and wait for a place at the front of ...

Of course everyone who visits the Louvre in Paris must make a ceremonial pilgrimage to Leonardo's "Mona Lisa," but it is always a disappointment. The crowds are thick and the frantic push for a ...

The Rijksmuseum was established in 1800, “an era when museums were built to convey a nationalistic narrative, to speak about what Europe had achieved,” Smeulders said.

A blue-painted dish, circa 1630-1650. Rijksmuseum Of all these Oriental luxury goods, it was probably porcelain that made the greatest impression on the Dutch. Chinese and Japanese porcelain, far ...