Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum is the Netherlands’ national museum for Dutch arts and history, and it anchors the country’s story in one place: Amsterdam. Its main building, designed by Pierre Cuypers, first opened in 1885, and it later returned to public life on 13 April 2013, after a ten-year renovation that cost €375 million, when Queen Beatrix reopened it. Before this grand address, the museum began modestly: its collection first fit into five rooms at Huis ten Bosch palace in The Hague when the Rijksmuseum was founded on 19 November 1798. In 1808 it moved to Amsterdam, initially housed in the Royal Palace and later in the Trippenhuis. Today the museum displays 8,000 objects drawn from a total collection of one million—spanning the years 1200 to 2000—and includes major works by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Johannes Vermeer. …
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