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Night Watch Gallery

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Ultra high resolution photo
Zoom in to miniscule pigment particles
The Night Watch
1:31 min. - Why is the Night Watch actually so famous?
Operation Night Watch
Katrien Keune, head of science
Night Watch
The defence of Amsterdam
Rembrandt van Rijn
Rebel with a cause
10 things about Rembrandt’s Night Watch
The Rijksmuseum’s beating heart
10 objects with a connection to slavery
Rijksmuseum & Slavery
Colours in The Night Watch
Operation Night Watch
Results of the research
What are the key findings?
Organised chaos
An unusual group portrait
Restoration 1975-76
Polygoon Hollands Nieuws 1976
Smalt in The Night Watch
What is it and how did Rembrandt use it?
Moving the Night Watch
Come closer than ever before!
The largest-ever photograph
A photo assembled from thousands of smaller photos taken by a robot
Mountain landscape of The Night Watch
Fly over the thick layers of paint on Rembrandt's masterpiece
Secrets revealed
See some of the amazing discoveries in Operation Night Watch
Treatment of The Night Watch started
Rembrandt's masterpiece goes face down!
Brittle varnish
The 1975-76 treatment
A hole in The Night Watch
The centre of the drum
Smalt used for purples
A paint sample from the shooting musketeer
Smalt research
Operation Night Watch
Hoisting paintings
An accident in 1901
Night Watch walk
How is Amsterdam connected to The Night Watch?

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