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The Van Gogh Museum contains the largest collection of paintings by Vincent van Gogh in the world. It provides the opportunity to keep track of the artist's developments, or compare his paintings to works by other artists from the 19th century in the collection. The museum also holds an extensive offer of exhibitions on various subjects from 19th century art history. There is a shop on the first floor where you can buy prints and books.
Admission is €10 for Adults and €2.50 for 13-17. Kids 0-12 are free. Guided and audio tours can be purchased for an additional fee.
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Euro 12.50  |
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Daily 10am-6pm
Fri 10am-10pm |
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My Average Rating: 4.24
I am a visitor
Reviewed by:
NaomiS
Review date: Mar-15-2005
The museum does a great job at tracking Van Gogh and the time he occupied, so that one might understand the revolutionary contribution Van Gogh had on the progression of art at this time. It opens with a room of paintings and sculptures that were popular at the time, and moves you slowly into his beginning works, where you can see Van Gogh gaining his mark, his voice, his style. It also takes you through asian prints and styles, as well as a collection of impressionist and pointillistic paintings, and you can get a good breadth of Van Gogh's inspiration points to see where he finally arrives as a mature painter. There is an exhibit as well, of gorgeous overblown photographs tracking Van Gogh's life, places he lived, views he had, so that one could also see the world that he saw. Really great pieces of the puzzle to see all the elements this way.
There is a rotating exhibit in the auditorium portion of the museum, and it had a nice exhibit on Bing's collection of Art Nouveau. I think this is one of the more interesting art museums if not for the actual paintings, but for the representation of the painter himself.
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My Average Rating: 3.70
I am a visitor
Reviewed by:
sloshed
Review date: Feb-22-2005
If you are a Van Gogh fan, then this museum is a must. They have a very large number of his works, although I was disappointed to learn that Starry Night is in New York and Cafe Terrace is at another museum outside the city of Amsterdam. In any event, all of the other major works are here as well as very early works, sketches, etc. There are also works by Monet, Manet, Bernard, a couple of sculptures by Rodin, and some other works. In the auditorium portion of the museum was an exhibition on Art Nouveau which was somewhat interesting. It took us about 3 hours to get through the whole museum.
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