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Amsterdam’s Best: Museums

For a fairly small city, Amsterdam has a
surprisingly large number of museums and Anne Frank Huis
galleries. The quality and variety of the Anne Frank’s photo is
exhibited in the house
collections are impressive, covering everything where she hid during
from bibles and beer to shipbuilding and World War II.
space travel. Many are housed in buildings
of historical or architectural interest. The
Rijksmuseum, with its Gothic façade, is a city
landmark, and Rembrandt’s work is exhibited
in his original home.

Amsterdam Museum
A wealth of historical
information is on display here.
Once an orphanage for boys,
it is depicted in Governesses at
the Bur gher Orphanage (1683)
by Adriaen Backer (see pp96–7).

NIEUWE
ZIJDE
Rijksmuseum
An extensive collection of
paintings by Dutch masters OUDE
can be seen in the ZIJDE
country’s largest national
museum. Jan van Huysum’s CANAL
Still Life with Fruit and
Flowers, dating from about RING
1730, is a fine example
(see pp126–9).

MUSEUM
QUARTER

Stedelijk Museum
Gerrit Rietveld’s simple Steltman chair
(1963) is one of many exhibits at this
modern art museum (see pp132–3).

Van Gogh Museum
Van Gogh’s Self-portrait with Straw Hat (1870)
hangs in this large, stark building, built in 1973 to
house the bulk of his work. A chic glass entrance
hall was added in 2015 (see pp130–31).

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