Rijksmuseum

The capital of the Netherlands has been struggling with millions of tourists that flock the city each year, and while there are many positive aspects of having lots of visitors in such a cosmopolitan place, the local government is worried that Amsterdam will forever be known as the “Red Lights…

Royal Łazienki MuseumThe Palace on the Isle, surrounded by water and the Łazienki Park’s gardens, is one of the finest examples of its kind in 18th-century European architecture. From the 1770s, the Royal Łazienki was the beloved private residence of the last king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Stanislaw August Poniatowski. A…

Main Blog > How the English Found Cannabis Thomas Bowrey traveled to Machilipatnam, on the coast of India, in 1673. He saw many strange and fascinating things that were completely unfamiliar to an Englishman, including the consumption of Bangha and Gangah, which left users in a besotted state.Bowrey initially compared…

Architecture studio Formafantasma has been tasked with creating a stunning baroque display for the Baroque in Rome exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. When creating the slick aesthetic, the design studio focused on the principles of sustainability, which are very important, and as a result, Formafantasma used various…

For the Rijksmuseum’s current exhibition, C aravaggio-Bernini. Baroque in Rome, the Netherlands-based multidisciplinary design duo Formafantasma produced the striking exhibit space. Using muted shades of blue, yellow, peach and pink; traditional textiles from…

formafantasma — the studio led by simone farresin and andrea trimarchi — has designed a new exhibition at amsterdam’s rijksmuseum dedicated to caravaggio, gian lorenzo bernini, and their contemporaries. titled ‘caravaggio-bernini. baroque in rome’, the display features more than 70 paintings and sculptures, which have been loaned from museums and…

You’ll know when you’ve arrived in Amsterdam. The constant ring-ring of bicycle bells, the wonderfully oddball Dutch humour, its mighty museums, cute-as-a-button canals and the occasional waft of legal marijuana single it out as a unique destination within Europe. No wonder cries of overtourism haven’t affected the appeal of this…

Tamara de Lempicka, “Portrait de Marjorie Ferry” (1932), oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 25 5/8 in. (100 x 65 cm.). Realised GBP 16,280,000 (~$21,000,000) at the Christie’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale. (courtesy of Christie’s)Cybercriminals scammed the Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Enschede, the Netherlands out of $3.1 million. The…

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The Mauritshuis in The Hague has appointed Martine Gosselink as its next general director. She currently serves as the head of history at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. During her tenure, she oversaw research into the provenance of objects in the Rijksmuseum’s colonial collections, the institution’s acquisition policy, and various programs.…