Van Gogh Museum
The world's largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings, drawings and letters, on Museumplein.
The Van Gogh Museum holds the largest collection of works by Vincent van Gogh anywhere in the world, with roughly 200 paintings, 500 drawings and more than 750 letters. The holdings descend from the artist's brother Theo and later passed to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, which placed them on long-term loan to the Dutch state. Opened on Museumplein in 1973, the museum traces Van Gogh's development chronologically and shows it alongside work by contemporaries such as Gauguin, Monet and Toulouse-Lautrec.
The original building was designed by Gerrit Rietveld and completed after his death by his former partners. A free-standing elliptical exhibition wing by the Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa was added in 1999, and in 2015 a glass entrance hall by Hans van Heeswijk joined the two structures and moved the main entrance to Museum Square. Temporary exhibitions occupy the Kurokawa wing, while the Rietveld building carries the permanent display across four floors, from the early Dutch years to Auvers-sur-Oise.
Highlights
- Around 200 paintings and 500 drawings by Vincent van Gogh
- Sunflowers, The Potato Eaters and Almond Blossom on permanent view
- Kisho Kurokawa's elliptical exhibition wing, opened in 1999
- Vincent on Friday late openings with music and talks
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