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Operation Night Watch

Operation Night Watch The latest news on Operation Night Watch

Scientific publications Operation Night Watch

Scientific publications Operation Night Watch De Keyser, Nouchka, Annelies van Loon, Francesca Gabrieli, Frederik Vanmeert, Fréderique T.H.

The Night Watch Gallery

The Night Watch Gallery The beating heart of the museum History of the Rijksmuseum Our online collection contains many photographs of the Rijksmuseum throughout the years.

Airbnb

The donation has supported the restoration of the Night Watch.

Visit the Rijksmuseum

It's the home of The Night Watch, The Milkmaid and many more Dutch Masterpieces.

Holidays at the Rijksmuseum

Live: Operation Night Watch The Rijksmuseum is using the very latest technology to research and treat the Night Watch.

Cross sections

Therefore, OCT is a valuable addition to the other research techniques used within Operation Night Watch. OCT images of the Night Watch Using the OCT technique, we have collected 3D images of the impasto areas and glaze layers of the Night Watch.

AkzoNobel

AkzoNobel is now the Rijksmuseum’s main partner on Operation Night Watch, the largest and most comprehensive research and restoration project in the history of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch.

Pon Holdings BV

For example, the company is supporting the project The Night Watch on Tour.

Reflectance Imaging Spectroscopy (RIS)

In the dark The scanning of The Night Watch with one of the cameras is done at night, after the museum has closed. That is because the scans have to be made in the dark.

Varnish removal testing

The results of these tests will be taken into account when considering the options or proposal for treatment of The Night Watch.

3D-scan

In collaboration with The Night Watch was examined in cooperation with TU Delft using a 3D scanner.

Our benefactors

for Operation Night Watch: the research and conservaton project for Rembrandts masterpiece The Night Watch Familie D.

Crystal structures

It is important for Operation Night Watch to map the degradation products and to examine them with a view to conservation treatment.

Research

OPERATION NIGHT WATCH 2019 saw the start of Operation Night Watch, the most extensive and innovative research and restoration project ever to focus on Rembrandt’s masterpiece The Night Watch.

Visiting safely

The Highlights route 1 (orange) will lead you through the Gallery of Honour and the Night Watch Gallery to the galleries of the late 17th century, the 19th-century and the Middle Ages.

Doppelgang

About the audio tour You’ll hear the two brothers having a phone conversation as they roam the galleries around The Night Watch, using a variety of artworks to find each other.

VriendenLoterij

This enables the Rijksmuseum to continue pursuing its ambition of letting every child see The Night Watch.

Evolon

The ultimate goal is to assess the suitability of Evolon CR for the removal of varnish on The Night Watch. Publications L. Baij, J. Buijs, J.J. Hermans, L. Raven, P.D. Iedema, K. Keune and J.

Wax-Resin Lining

Partners and Sponsors Migelien Gerritzen Fund Related projects Operation Night Watch

PILLARS OF THE RIJKSMUSEUM

Operation Night Watch is currently the largest and most advanced research, conservation and restoration project.

Sample examination

Sample examination Minuscule paint samples Do they just snip a piece of paint out of The Night Watch? The researchers start by very closely examining where they want to take paint samples.

Elemental composition

The entire Night Watch was scanned millimetre by millimetre in this way. 56 scans In order to map the entire canvas its surface was divided up into sections measuring 60 by 80 centimetres. A total of 56 scans were made.

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility

We use our accessibility programme to tour replicas of The Night Watch and paintings by Vermeer to nursing homes and senior accommodation throughout the Netherlands.

Security staff in the Great Hall Security staff in the Great Hall

Join us

From the guard looking out for The Night Watch to the IT engineer applying the most advanced tools. Keep on learning With 30 nationalities, 750 employees and a wealth of cultures, we work hard daily to make every visit to the museum special.

'Isabella' 'Isabella'

Inclusivity

Night Watch on Tour and Closer to Vermeer (replica paintings sent to nursing homes, made possible by Philips, Elisabeth Art Foundation, Rijksmuseum Fonds and Pon.

Families and children

Families and children Explore the museum together A castle-like building with 8,000 treasures – from an airplane to a dollhouse, the world-famous Night Watch, and hundreds of weapons and ship models.

Changed lead pigments

Keune, ‘Lead(II) Formate in Rembrandt's Night Watch: Detection and Distribution from the Macro- to the Micro-scale’, in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 62 (16), (2023), e202216478

Migelien Gerritzen Fellowship

Topic related to the The Night Watch CT X-ray related research Better dating of objects (by for instance analysing the pigments present / composition / manufacturing techniques) Retouching of ceramics: what is enough to understand the meaning of an object

History

There they joined the city’s most important paintings, including Rembrandt’s The Night Watch. This Royal Museum officially opened in 1809 on the palace’s top floor.

Philips

Watch were displayed at hundreds of nursing and care homes across the Netherlands.

Adolf and Catharina Croeser, Known as ‘The Burgomaster of Delft and his Daughter’ Adolf and Catharina Croeser, Known as ‘The Burgomaster of Delft and his Daughter’

Overview Funds and Foundations

This enables the Rijksmuseum to continue pursuing its ambition of "Every Child to The Night Watch.

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