Anyone with even a passing interest in art will have heard of the masterpieces housed in the Rijksmuseum: Van Gogh’s 1887 Self-portrait; The Night Watch by Rembrandt; and The Milkmaid by Vermeer.
Anyone with even a passing interest in art will have heard of the masterpieces housed in the Rijksmuseum: Van Gogh’s 1887 Self-portrait; The Night Watch by Rembrandt; and The Milkmaid by Vermeer. The current museum was opened in 1885 and the collection consists of more than one million objects of art, craft and history.