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Rijksmuseum is a museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Overview

The Rijksmuseum is the largest art museum in the Netherlands.

It was founded in The Hague on 19 November 1798 and moved to Amsterdam in 1808, where it was first located in the Royal Palace and later in the Trippenhuis. The current main building was designed by Pierre Cuypers and first opened in 1885. On 13 April 2013, after a ten-year renovation, the main building was reopened by Queen Beatrix.

The museum has on display 8,000 objects of art and history, from their total collection of 1 million objects from the years 1200–2000, among which are some masterpieces by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Johannes Vermeer.

The collections includes numerous works on Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins.

External links

• wiki.en