Rijksmuseum
Visiting address
Jan Luijkenstraat 1
NL-1071 CJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Postal address
P.O. Box 74888
NL-1070 DN Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Director's office
Hobbemastraat 20
NL-1071 ZC Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Library, print room and curatorial offices
Frans van Mierisstraat 92
NL-1071 RZ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
T +31 20 674 7000 (switchboard)
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Website
Information
From 20 December 2003 through 2013, in connection with the complete renovation of the old Rijksmuseum building, 400 of the most important pieces from the 17th century, in all media, are on view in the Philips Wing. This presentation has been given the name De meesterwerken (The masterpieces).
Collection catalogues
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam: a completely illustrated catalogue
Thiel, Pieter J.J. van
Amsterdam [etc.] 1992
Current exhibitions & other events
Upcoming exhibitions & other events
Previous exhibitions & other events since 1999
- Rembrandt unravelled (20 November 2012-28 February 2013)
- The lure of falconry (7 August-19 November 2012)
- Honour surpasses gold: Hendrick Goltzius's printing firm (30 May-6 August 2012)
- Where darkness meets light: Rembrandt and his contemporaries: the Golden Age of Dutch art (21 February-10 June 2012)
- A heavenly gift (14 December 2011-5 March 2012)
- Nova Zembla at the Rijksmuseum (22 November 2011-27 February 2012)
- Johan Maurits & Frans Post: Two Dutchmen in Brazil (20 September-12 December 2011)
- Rembrandt and Degas (1 July-23 October 2011)
- Face to face with the Golden Age: the choice of Wim Pijbes (21 June-19 September 2011)
- Masterpieces on paper: the secret of lines (21 June-19 September 2011)
- Course Made in the Netherlands: art from the 15th and 16th centuries (14 August-25 August 2011)
- Lecture Jan van Eyck in Holland (25 August 2011)
- Anselm Kiefer and The Night Watch (7 May-30 June 2011)
- The Golden Age of Dutch Painting: masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (11 March-6 June 2011)
- Gabriël Metsu: a master rediscovered (16 December 2010-21 March 2011)
- Everyone had to be able to draw (30 November 2010-28 February 2011)
- Symposium Gabriël Metsu (23 February 2011)
- Rembrandt & Jan Six: an Amsterdam friendship (7 September-29 November 2010)
- The Golden Age reloaded (2 May-31 October 2010)
- Miró & Jan Steen (17 June-13 September 2010)
- Amsterdam’s canal belt: the expansion of Amsterdam in the Golden Age (1 June-6 September 2010)
- A day in the life of the Golden Age (13 April-13 June 2010)
- Tulips in Amsterdam (2 March-1 June 2010)
- Pieter Aertsen and the world turned on its head (2 February-19 April 2010)
- Pub life (1 December 2009-1 March 2010)
- Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634): the little ice age (20 November 2009-15 February 2010)
- Jean Baptiste Vanmour: a painter from Valenciennes in Constantinople (23 October 2009-7 February 2010)
- The Dutch Golden age: from Rembrandt to Vermeer (7 October 2009-7 February 2010)
- Lecture Hendrick Avercamp: the little ice age (16 January 2010)
- Symposium Hendrick Avercamp: the little ice age (14 January 2010)
- Rijksmuseum Maastricht, a selection of Southern Netherlandish painting and sculpture, ca. 1480-1620 (1 January 2008-31 December 2009)
- New horizons: The Hague school and the modern Dutch landscape (12 September-6 December 2009)
- Masterpieces on paper: Jacob Cats (1 September-30 November 2009)
- Lecture Hendrick Avercamp, a drawing painter (28 November 2009)
- Lecture Avercamp: people and fashion on the ice (27 November 2009)
- Symposium What do the historians of the Rijksmuseum buy? (16 October 2009)
- Queen and huntress chaste and fair: the Rijksmuseum's Diana tapestries (13 March-13 September 2009)
- Four new Versproncks (9 June-7 September 2009)
- Masterpieces on paper: the light and the dark (12 June-31 August 2009)
- Symposium The gentle art of iconology: some thoughts and afterthoughts (27 August 2009)
- Symposium Diana in 16th and early 17th-century art, particularly on tapestries (12 June 2009)
- Vermeer masterpiece back in Amsterdam (11 March-1 June 2009)
- Presentation What makes a Vermeer a Vermeer? Searching for clues in the conservation laboratory (15 May 2009)
- The Hague school: masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum (12 February-14 April 2009)
- Melchior d’Hondecoeter: fowl (18 December 2008-16 March 2009)
- Romeyn de Hooghe: the late Golden Age brought to life (10 December 2008-8 March 2009)
- Karel du Jardin (1626-1678) (14 December 2007-16 March 2008)
- Symposium Karel du Jardin (14 March 2008)
- The Leaping Horse by Constable on view in the Rijksmuseum (20 September-17 December 2007)
- New acquisitions by the Rijksmuseum show art in progress (13 June-14 August 2007)
- Fire! Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712) (2 February-30 April 2007)
- Symposium Fire! Jan van der Heyden (20 April 2007)
- The true identity of Jan Steen's Burgomaster of Delft revealed (22 December 2006-6 March 2007)
- All the Rembrandt drawings in the Rijksmuseum, part 2: the observer (14 October 2006-23 January 2007)
- Fashion DNA (1 August-22 October 2006)
- All the Rembrandt drawings in the Rijksmuseum, part 1: the storyteller (11 August-11 October 2006)
- Nightwatching by Peter Greenaway (2 June-6 August 2006)
- Really Rembrandt? (9 March-24 May 2006)
- All the Rembrandt paintings from the Rijksmuseum collection (26 January-19 February 2006)
- Sparkling satin: the best of Gerard ter Borch (10 June-4 September 2005)
- The sultan, the ambassador and the artist: an audience in Istanbul, 1727-1744 (4 July-26 October 2003)
- Witsen and Amsterdam (15 August-26 October 2003)
- Gespierd brons: beelden van Willem van Tetrode (ca. 1525-1580) (Muscular bronze: sculptures by Willem van Tetrode) (7 March-25 May 2003)
- Hendrick Goltzius: drawings, prints and paintings (7 March-25 May 2003)
- Around Jordaens: Flemish masters in the Rijksmuseum (30 November 2002-18 March 2003)
- costume accessories (25 May-24 November 2002)
- De Haagse School: aquarellen uit de verzameling Drucker-Fraser (20 July-27 October 2002)
- The golden land of Aelbert Cuyp: paintings and drawings (7 June-1 September 2002)
- The curious world of Michael Sweerts (9 March-20 May 2002)
- Aelbert Cuyp (13 February-12 May 2002)
- In fashion: eighteenth-century costume in the Netherlands (5 October 2001-3 February 2002)
- Rococo in the Netherlands: a riot of ornament (3 November 2001-1 February 2002)
- Aelbert Cuyp (7 October 2001-13 January 2002)
- Recent developments in the study of 17th century Dutch art (19 August-24 November 2001)
- Drawn to warmth: 17th-century Dutch artists in Italy (30 June-30 September 2001)
- Two Golden Ages: paintings from Holland and Denmark (16 June-16 September 2001)
- Geertgen restored: medieval masterpiece back on view after 17 years (13 February-29 April 2001)
- Rembrandt the printmaker (25 January-8 April 2001)
- Regents in their Sunday best: the Six donation (10 September 2000-11 March 2001)
- Rembrandt in various states, part 2 (14 October 2000-7 January 2001)
- History in the picture [The Frederik Muller Atlas of history prints] (8 July-15 October 2000)
- Rembrandt in various states, part 1 (22 July-8 October 2000)
- Glory of the Golden Age: Dutch art of the 17th century (paintings and decorative arts) (15 April-17 September 2000)
- Glory of the Golden Age: Dutch art of the 17th century (prints and drawings) (15 April-16 July 2000)
- A royal museum: the early history of the Rijksmuseum (8 January-25 June 2000)
- Symposium The shifting image of the Golden Age (29 May-30 May 2000)
- Amsterdam gold and silver (11 December 1999-26 March 2000)
- Antonie van Dyck (12 October 1999-9 January 2000)
- Neo to deco: tradition and innovation in costume and textile, 1880-1920 (13 May-19 September 1999)
- Dutch still life, 1550-1720 (19 June-9 September 1999)
- Birds: prints, drawings and photos (20 March-27 June 1999)
- Adriaen de Vries, imperial sculptor (12 December 1998-14 March 1999)
- Web Exhibition Accessorize! (1 February 2008)
