The Night Watch Gallery was specially designed to showcase Rembrandt's famous civic guard portrait – a painting that has gone down in history as marking the turning point in his career and as the ...

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1:13 min. - Take a closer look at the flaming parrot tulips ...

1:18 min. - Father of the Dutch nation. Fighter or diplomat?

From luxury lingerie to linen underpants. Under/wear is a Rijksmuseum Special Collections display tracing shifts in underwear trends between 1640 and 1940 – from linen underpants belonging to ...

The famous milkmaid. It seems as if the milk is still streaming from the pitcher.

Having learned his painting skills from his brother Job and the famous artist Frans Hals, Gerrit Berckheyde (1638-1698) travelled with his brother from their home city of Haarlem to Germany.