Collection: Van Gogh Museum

The Van Gogh Museum is a Dutch art museum dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries in Amsterdam. The museum contains the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world with 200 paintings, 400 drawings, and 700 letters by the artist. The museum also has paintings by John Russell, Émile Bernard, Maurice Denis, Kees van Dongen, Paul Gauguin, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Odilon Redon, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and sculptures by Auguste Rodin and Jules Dalou.

Design for a Van Gogh Museum was commissioned by the Dutch government in 1963 to Dutch architect and furniture designer Gerrit Rietveld. Rietveld died a year later, and the building was not completed until 1973, when the museum opened its doors. In 1998 and 1999, the building was renovated by the Dutch architect Martien van Goor, and an exhibition wing by the Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa was added. In late 2012, the museum was closed for renovations for six months. During this period, 75 works from the collection were shown in the Hermitage Amsterdam. {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Gogh_Museum}

 A portion from sales of products featuring works in the Van Gogh Museum collection is paid back to the museum to support their programs.

Museum Photo Credit: Steven Lek, 2017