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Van Gogh Museum is the famous museum in Amsterdam dedicated to the work of the great Dutch artist Van Gogh.
To avoid queues, you should visit in the morning, perhaps after the opening, especially in summer.

Located in the so-called Paulus Potterstraat 7 in the Museum Quarter, is housed in a building situated near the Museumplein, a square surrounded by greenery and around which overlook other three famous institutions: the Rijksmuseum, the Stedelijk Museum and Hall of the Royal Concertgebow. The building was opened in 1973 to collect the works of the master, 10 years before they began the first construction project on Gerrit Rietveld which participated actively nephew Vincent Willem van Gogh as an engineer.

Towards the end of the 90 ‘was built a further extension of the museum designed by Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, funded through a generous donation of a Japanese company. Outside shows the typical geometry typical of many construction de Stijl and spread over four levels which are ordered strictly the various sections that compose it.

Every year not less than one million tourists come to admire the complete and spectacular collection: more than 250 paintings and 500 drawings and watercolors, including 4 of 13 large canvases (50×100 cm.)

The museum includes a library, a reading room where you can consult freely art books about the artist and his contemporaries