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An overview of the press releases of the Rijksmuseum.
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Exhibition Looted, personal stories about the looting and restitution of Jewish cultural property (31 May-27 October 2024)
Mounir Raji photographs tourism for the Rijksmuseum's annual photography commission
Mission Masterpiece, New Horizons and Richard Long in the Rijksmuseum Gardens
From luxury lingerie to linen underpants
From Hans Holbein and Jan van de Velde the Younger to Jean-Antoine Watteau
5 November 2022 - November 2023
Opening in February 2023 Opening in February 2023
3 June to 23 October 2022
1 July until 4 September 2022
30 September 2022 to 15 January 2023
1 July to 4 September 2022 in the Rijksmuseum’s Photography Gallery
With loans from all over the world, this promises to be the largest Vermeer exhibition ever
The Rijksmuseum presents Revolusi! Indonesia Independent, from 11 February to 5 June 2022
The Rijksmuseum's exhibitions in 2022, including Revolusi! Indonesia independent, the statues of Barbara Hepworth and Clara, the most famous rhinoceros from the 18th century
8 juni 2021
This exhibition foregrounds the portrayal of strong and individual women in paintings from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, and the work of female artists
These immense steel objects are part of the Ellsworth Kelly in the Rijksmuseum Gardens exhibition
King Willem-Alexander opened the Slavery exhibition in the Rijksmuseum on Tuesday afternoon
Paintings by Judith Leyster, Gesina ter Borch and Rachel Ruysch will soon be on permanent display among the 17th-century works by Frans Hals, Johannes Vermeer and Rembrandt
Michaëla Ulrici and Maarten Edixhoven
The Rijksmuseum has appointed Charles Kang as its Curator of 18th- and 19th-Century Drawings. He succeeds Robert-Jan te Rijdt who retires this month.
Niels van Maanen previously curated several displays at the Rijksmuseum including the current one devoted to Robert Mapplethorpe.
In the coming two years, we will work together on the further digitising, preserving and opening up of the Rijksmuseum collection
The Rijksmuseum is offering multiple Education Traineeships with the support of Fonds 21 EXTRA
Keune is Head of Science at the Rijksmuseum and is responsible, among others, for the scientific research during 'Operation Night Watch
Mariët Westermann is professor of Arts and Humanities at New York University Abu Dhabi, where she also serves as Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive
14 juni 2021
The Rijksmuseum’s new Curator of Library Collections is Alex Alsemgeest, who will take up his post on 20 September 2021
The Rijksmuseum has been awarded a BREEAM-NL In-Use sustainability certificate with a five-star ‘outstanding’ rating
Results published in Nature Communications
Six Colonial Objects will return to Sri Lanka
he bringing together of four collections in this way and the collaboration between the four partners makes CC NL unique in the world.
AFTER GOING ON TOUR THROUGHOUT THE NETHERLANDS
The Dutch State today announced its intention to purchase Rembrandt's The Standard Bearer (1636) for the national collection
The Rijksmuseum bought at auction more than half of a significant collection of Meissen porcelain
A sculptural work recently acquired by the Rijksmuseum has been attributed to the father of Dutch sculpture, Claus Sluter
The Rijksmuseum Bulletin is now being published in a free, open access digital version, as well as a printed version
Ludolf Bakhuysen, who painted the panel in 1667, was one of the most prominent and prolific marine painters of the 17th century
The gift comprises 54 objects: a unique collection of 50 Chinese seals, a 13-metre scroll of seal prints, two calligraphies and one painting
Remounting of Rembrandt’s masterpiece
The Operation Night Watch research team has succeeded in making an extremely detailed photograph of The Night Watch.
A previously hidden sketch has been discovered during examinations of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch
The Night Watch is removed from its usual position on the wall and placed at the front of the transparent glass chamber.
Rijksmuseum reconstructs the missing pieces
On 8 July 2019 the Rijksmuseum starts Operation Night Watch
