Rijks

RIJKS® takes its name from the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands, and that connection matters here: you’re in the orbit of one of Amsterdam’s great cultural landmarks. The museum was founded in The Hague on 19 November 1798, moved to Amsterdam in 1808, and found a permanent home in the current main building, designed by Pierre Cuypers and first opened in 1885. After a ten-year renovation costing €375 million, Queen Beatrix reopened it on 13 April 2013. Today the Rijksmuseum holds around one million objects from 1200 to 2000, with 8,000 on display, including works by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Johannes Vermeer. It’s also the largest art museum in the country, and in 2013 and 2014 it drew record crowds of 2.2 million and 2.47 million visitors. The museum’s Asian pavilion adds a smaller but distinctive collection, which gives the place a wider reach than Dutch painting alone. …

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