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, ...

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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 ...

The Shop and The Café are open from 9 am to 6 pm. These are only accessible with an entrance ticket to the museum until 5 pm. Between 5 and 6 pm you can enter without an entrance ticket. RIJKS ...

Deze lieflijke scène bevat een boodschap. De visserskinderen met hun armoedige kleding en schamele speelgoed geven ons een beeld van hun toekomst. De oudste jongen torst de last van het gezin op zijn ...

Notice their gazes and the tender way their hands touch. The contrast between the subtle mood and Rembrandt’s bold execution of the clothes is remarkable. Want to see the works in real life? Come ...

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 ...

Even as an inexperienced young artist, Rembrandt did not shy away from experimenting. Here the light glances along his right cheek, while the rest of his face is veiled in shadow. It takes a while to ...

Een dagje uit in Amsterdam is niet compleet zonder een bezoek aan het Rijksmuseum. Ontdek de kunst en geschiedenis van Nederland in hét museum van Amsterdam. Bekijk de meesterwerken van Rembrandt, ...

The Cuypers Library is the largest and oldest art historical library in the Netherlands. Visitors, students and art historians alike are welcome to use the library to delve deeper into the Rijksmuseum ...

Barbara Hepworth was an innovator. She broke with tradition and found new forms of expression with her sculpture. Being a successful 20th century female artist, she became an international role model.

Every six months the curators select objects from the Rijksmuseum collection of Asian art to spotlight a wide range of stories. Under the watchful gaze of the Japanese temple guardians, this time we ...