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Opening times
Museum: daily 10-18.00, Friday 10.00-22.00
Ticket office: daily 10-17.30, Friday to 21.30
Shop: daily 10-17.45, friday to 21.45
Restaurant: daily 10-17.30, Friday to 21.30, kitchen to 21.15
Library Museumplein 4: Mon to Fri 10-12.30 and 13.30-17.00
Closed 1 January
Admission
Adults: € 10
13-17 years: € 2.50
0-12 years: free
There is no special rate for groups or students.
The Van Gogh Museum is entirely accessible for wheelchair users. The
entrance with lift is at the main entrance on the Paulus Potterstraat.
The museum also has several wheelchairs available. Visitors with
another handicap and/or other special requirements can contact the
Department of Education & Visitor Services. Please take into
account that the Van Gogh Museum is a much-frequented museum; there may
be long queues at the admissions office, especially around Easter and
during the summer months.
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By far the largest
museum in the Netherlands, housed in a monumental neo-renaissance
building designed by PJH Cuypers. The Rijksmuseum (State Museum) draws
over one million visitors a year, and ranks as a major European museum
of Western European painting and decorative arts. Currently the
Rijksmuseum is the subject of an extensive renovation, and work is
scheduled to be completed no sooner then 2008. 
Until then the museum is showing the finest works from
its 17th century collection in the redesigned Philips Wing, under the
title "The Masterpieces". More than 400 highlights from the Golden Age
are on display, amongst which of course Rembrandts Night Watch. Besides
Rembrandts there are paintings by Frans Hals, Paulus Potter, Jacob van
Ruysdael, Jan Steen, and Johannes Vermeer. There are landscapes,
seascapes, individual portraits, domestic scenes and Dutch still lifes
which together give a good overview of Golden Age life in the
Netherlands. 
Housed in a
monumental 17th century rigging house of the Amsterdam Admiralty, the
Scheepvaartmuseum (Maritime Museum) explains the history and techniques
of navigation and overseas trade which were the driving force behind
the Dutch Golden Age. On display are ship models and ship parts,
drawings, seascapes, and old maps. The major pieces are the "Great
Atlas, or Description of the World" by Jan Blaeu, several official
documents relating to the Dutch colony of Nieuw Amsterdam (New York)
and of course the full-size replica of the Amsterdam, the Dutch East
India Company ship, moored outside.
