Theme Week Amsterdam – The Van Gogh Museum

11 November 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Museums, Exhibitions Reading Time:  8 minutes

Van Gogh Museum © Taxiarchos228/cc-by-sa-3.0

Van Gogh Museum © Taxiarchos228/cc-by-sa-3.0

The Van Gogh Museum is an art museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries. It is located at the Museum Square in the borough Amsterdam South, close to the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and the Concertgebouw. The museum opened on 3 June 1973. It located in buildings designed by Gerrit Rietveld and Kisho Kurokawa. The museum’s collection is the largest collection of Van Gogh’s paintings and drawings in the world. In 2013, the museum had 1.4 million visitors, and was the 2nd most visited museum in the Netherlands and the 35th most visited art museum in the world. In 2014, the museum had 1.6 million visitors.   read more…

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