If the great Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt van Rijn was revived for one day to tell his life story, he “would probably head straight for the Rijksmuseum,” Taco Dibbits, the director of the ...

Opening to the public this Friday, February 10, “Vermeer” at the Netherlands’s national museum of art and history presents a total of 28 out of the 37 known paintings by the artist, making the show ...

Closed for 10 years for an all-encompassing, €375 million ($489 million) refurbishment, Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum – the national museum of arts and history founded in 1800 – has emerged transformed and ...

Art’s relationship to health has been making headlines in recent weeks, and now the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is taking part in a scientific study to specifically explore whether looking at it can ...

The new documentary Close to Vermeer chronicles the making of the exhibition that brought over half a million visitors to the Amsterdam museum. A new documentary makes the case that, record-smashing ...

Cornelius van Harlaam, “Bathsheba at her toilet” (1594) (all images courtesy the Rijksmuseum) If you’re browsing the digital collection of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, you might come across a 1594 ...

“Paintings by Maria van Oosterwijck are exceptionally rare because of the limited body of work that she left to posterity,” the museum’s general director, Taco Dibbits, said in a statement. “Only some ...

Considered one of Amsterdam's top museums (along with the Van Gogh and Anne Frank museums), the Rijksmuseum (or State Museum) features an impressive collection of artists, including Rembrandt and ...