There were many reasons for the era to prosper like cheap resources, migration of intelligent and dedicated labors, birth of co-operate finance, fostered literary activities and art works. This era had seen amazing painters and thus their masterpiece are preserved carefully. You will be able to experience all this beautiful master piece in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Amsterdam, derived from Amstellerdam is the capital and largest city of Netherlands. The name itself depicts about the city, the dam on river amstel makes it known as Amsterdam.  At a time of 12th century it was settled as a small fishing village which turned out as a most important port during Dutch golden age.

The Amsterdam Stock Exchange is the oldest stock exchange in the world.

Amsterdam’s main attractions comprises of, historic canals, the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum, Hermitage Amsterdam, Anne Frank House, and many cannabis coffee shops.

According to the records of 2009, this all attraction pulls over more than 3.66 million international visitors annually.

All this great art work is guarded by Rijksmuseum which stands on Museumplein, the Museumplein is a square in Amsterdam where all the four museum are located in square: : the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum, and the Diamond Museum.

Known as State Museum in English, is a Dutch national museum in Amsterdam. The museum is devoted to arts, crafts, and history which has fat collected works of paintings from the Dutch Golden Age. It also comprises some exclusive work from Asian art.

It was by the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte’s brother King Louis Bonaparte the museum moved to Amsterdam in 1808 from Hague where it was established in 1800 to reveal the assortment of the Dutch stadtholders. It was inspired by French example. By then it was known as the National Art Gallery. The paintings possessed by the city, such as The Night Watch by Rembrandt are the main attraction of the collection.

The present building which is opened 1885 is a massive structure by master architect Peter Cuypers, appearing as a water fortress. The major alteration in the interiors of building was made between the 1920s and 1950s.  In the 1960s exhibition rooms and several floors were turned into the two patios. During the restoration and renovation process only about four hundred of the one-million pieces from permanent collection are on exhibited in an display called The Masterpieces which is already renovated “fragment building,” nowadays called the Philips wing.

The Rijksmuseum displays a famous late work by Rembrandt, The Jewish bride in which the man’s lascivious hand rests on the woman’s breast probably based on the biblical figures of Isaac and Rebecca. There is also Rembrandt’s Self Portrait as the Apostle Paul. The famous ‘landscape with a Stone bridge’ had inspired the great Dutch landscape artist, Salomon van Ruysdael and Jacob van Ruysdeal.

There are also more captivatingly beautiful paintings by Johannes Vermeer from Delft, ‘Woman in blue reading a letter’ and ‘ The Milkmaid’ a girl pouring milk from a jug into bowl. There is also Jan Steen’s ‘The Morning Toilet’ where a woman is sitting on bed putting her stockings and the other painting by Jan Steen are The Drunken Pair, Adolf en Catharina Croeser along with Arent Oostwaard and his wife.

Some of the famous Paintings in the collection by Frans Hals are Portrait of a Young Couple, The Company of Reynier Real, The Jolly Drinker, Portrait of Lucas De Clercq, Portrait of Nicolaes Hasselaer and  Portrait of a Man

You would love to travel here by tram which reaches to Museumplein, where you can visit anytime from 09.00 a.m to 06.00 p.m. The Museum is opened from Monday to Sunday. Due to wide use of internet the online ticketing has become very easy and hence we are providing you with the charges so that you can book it very easily.
Groups of 15 or more will have to pay 10 Euro.

Prices that are not including during admission to the museum

• 75 euro. – Per hour for a tour of Dutch painting from the Golden Age.
• 100 euro. – Per hour for a tour with another theme.

Different charges are applied to schools:

• 45 euro,- per hour for a tour of Dutch painting from the Golden Age
• 55 euro,- per hour for a tour with another theme

But at the same time there are many other attractions which will catch your attractions like Historical Museum, Jewish Historic Museum and Rembrandthuis.  This all places add as cheery upon icing.

Founded in 1800 the museum has a huge collection of Dutch Stadtholders which is kept in display in The Hague. It was very much inspired by the French. Later it was named as the National art gallery. King Louis Bonaparte had ordered to displace the existing museum and move it to Amsterdam. King Louis Bonaparte was the brother of the very famous Napolean Bonaparte. The city owned the paintings of the museum. The painting of Rembrandth named the night watch was the part of the extensive museum collection.

A competition to design the new construction of the building was arranged in the year 1863. The submissions that were made in the competition were not up to the mark and thus all was disqualified. One of the participants named Pierre Cuypers did reach the second position in the competition. Later in year 1876 again a new competition was been taken and to everybody’s surprise Pierre Cuypers did won the competition. The design presented by Pierre Cuypers was a combination of renaissance and gothic elements. In 1876 the construction of the museum started on October 1. The exteriors as well as interiors of the museum was been decorated with various references from the dutch art history.

Later another competition was been taken to given the responsibility of the decorations of the museum. This time the winners of the competition were J.F.Vermeylen and B.van Hove for the sculptures. For the tile tableaus G Sturm was been selected. W.F.Dixon was selected for the stained glass section. On July 13, 1885 the museum was re opened on its new location.

In year 1890 a small building was constructed to the Rijksmuseum. This building was with the help of the left over material of the old building. The old and the new building together gave a view of the Dutch art culture; the hall which was specially meant for The Night Watch was rebuilt in 1906. More changes in the interior were made during 1920 and 1950. The decorations that were multi colored were painted again. In 1960 two yards were constructed which did consist of several floors and the exposition rooms.

Minor restoration and renovation were done in 1984 later in 1995-96 also in 2000. Restoration and renovation of the building is been decided to be done from 2003 and will last till 2013 and the responsibility for the same is given to the Spanish architect Antonia Ortiz as well as Antonio Cruz. The old flooring in the courtyard is decided to be removed also the interior colorful decoration is going to be restored. After the renovation and the restoration process only 400 out of the 1 million pieces would be kept in the display, in a small building called Philips Wing.

To reach the museum you can take a cab or car from the Amsterdam airport which is the nearest located airport.