Education
Education
Explore the collection
All kinds of facilities are available at the museum to help visitors find out more about the collection: exhibit texts, publications, guided tours, audio Tours and the Rijksmuseum website.
Most of the special educational products concerning 'The Masterpieces' are only in Dutch.
Tours
School Groups can reserve a professional Rijksmuseum guide.
Possible topics:
- Dutch painting from the Golden Age
- Dutch History
- Hidden meanings in paintings
- Tour d'amour: love / marriage
- Celebrations
- Rembrandt
- Light and perspective
- Family life in the 17th century
- Dining in the 17th century
- Domestic life in the Golden Age
Other themes are also certainly possible by agreement.
€ 50,- per hour for a tour of Dutch painting from the Golden Age.
€ 60,- per hour for a tour with another theme.
Tours can be given in the following languages: Dutch, English, German and French.
Group size is limited to 15 people for each guide.
Click here for online group reservations.
More information: +31 20 6747470
You are allowed to bring your own guide. For groups of 15 or more the guide is admitted free. Group size is limited to 20 people for each external (not employed by the Rijksmuseum) guide.
Gordon the Warden booklet(6-12 years)
Join Gordon the Warden in looking for five of the Rijksmuseum's masterpieces. This booklet leads you to a model ship, a doll's house, two portraits of powerful Amsterdam citizens, a fine mess by Jan Steen and Rembrandt's The Night Watch.
The Gordon the Warden booklet was created for children of 6-12, and can be purchased from the Information Desk for € 1,- a piece.
Website
The famous Rijksmuseum collection can be explored in our educational database and in special interactive presentations round 'The Masterpieces'.
Entrance tickets and reservations
For pupils under 19 entrance to the Rijksmuseum is free.
Teachers and older pupils (19+) pay € 12,50 per head.
Click here for online group reservations.
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