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Operation Night Watch

Closer than ever before

Operation Night Watch Symposium

Technological Innovations and Scientific Results

The Night Watch Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642

Copy of The Night Watch

attributed to Gerrit Lundens, c. 1642 - c. 1655

The Night Watch by Rembrandt van Rijn

Moses Cohen de Vries junior, 1873

The Swijgh Utrecht Tower in Amsterdam

Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1650 - c. 1655

Militia Company of District VIII in Amsterdam under the Command of Captain Roelof Bicker

Bartholomeus van der Helst, c. 1640 - c. 1643

Plattegrond van Amsterdam (blad midden)

Balthasar Florisz. van Berckenrode, 1625

Jozef en de vrouw van Potifar

Rembrandt van Rijn (mentioned on object), 1634

De waardijns van het Amsterdamse lakenbereidersgilde, bekend als ‘De Staalmeesters’

Henricus Wilhelmus Couwenberg, 1844 - 1845

Officers and Other Civic Guardsmen of the IIIrd District of Amsterdam, under the Command of Captain Allaert Cloeck and Lieutenant Lucas Jacobsz Rotgans

Thomas de Keyser (signed by artist), 1632

Preparatory sketch discovered beneath The Night Watch

First phase completed of Operation Night Watch research

Rijksmuseum publishes 717 gigapixel photograph of The Night Watch

The Operation Night Watch research team has succeeded in making an extremely detailed photograph of The Night Watch.

Treatment of The Night Watch begins

Remounting of Rembrandt’s masterpiece

RESTORATION BEGINS OF REMBRANDT’S THE NIGHT WATCH

Operation Night Watch to start at the Rijksmuseum

Most detailed ever photograph of The Night Watch goes online

Original drawing of the dog in The Night Watch discovered

The Night Watch taken down from wall for final phase of research

For the first time in 300 years The Night Watch is complete again

Rijksmuseum reconstructs the missing pieces

Rembrandt used a lead-containing layer to protect The Night Watch from moisture