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Van Gogh Museum

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is a national art museum dedicated to Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries, consisting of two connected buildings housing the largest collection of Van Gogh paintings, drawings and letters. Opened in 1973, the museum displays a permanent chronological presentation of Van Gogh's work alongside temporary exhibitions in an attached wing.

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First raised

1973

Its prime

2017

Today

Still standing

As it stood in 2017

The shape it held in its prime.

A low, rectilinear complex of beige brick volumes next to a tall glass cube with a visible metal mullion grid; the brick block has a long colonnade of tall vertical windows and a flat roofline, while the glass cube rises several stories with a reflective curtain wall that mirrors nearby historic rooftops. The site sits on a broad paved plaza with trees, bicycle racks and red lamp posts; signage reading 'Van Gogh Museum' appears on the brick façade.

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8 places to explore in 2017.

The record describes 8 distinct spots at Van Gogh Museum — including 6 interiors: rietveld building ground-floor shop and café, first-floor chronological van gogh galleries, second-floor restoration information area and minor temporary exhibition and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.

Approach from Museumplein plaza with sunflowers and plazaCorner of the multi-storey glass cube on the plazaRietveld building ground-floor shop and caféFirst-floor chronological Van Gogh galleriesSecond-floor restoration information area and minor temporary exhibitionThird-floor galleries of Van Gogh's contemporariesTunnel entrance linking Rietveld building to the Kurokawa wingKurokawa wing oval temporary exhibition galleries

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