Van Gogh Museum
The Van Gogh Museum opened on 2 June 1973 and was built to house Vincent van Gogh’s art at Museumplein, close to the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and the Concertgebouw. Its buildings were designed by Gerrit Rietveld and Kisho Kurokawa, and the Dutch government had commissioned the design back in 1963—Rietveld died a year later, before construction finished. Inside, the collection holds the largest number of van Gogh paintings and drawings in the world, giving you a focused view of the artist and his contemporaries rather than a scattered trail through private holdings. That focus rests on family stewardship: after Vincent died in 1890, his unsold works passed to his brother Theo, then to Theo’s widow Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, who inherited the collection and helped maintain it as a private record of his work. The museum later transferred those materials to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation in 1962. …
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