Fodor's Expert Review H'ART Museum
Set on the Amstel river, in the stately Amstelhof (once a home for the elderly), this newly renamed museum features high white interiors and smaller side rooms connected by long unadorned corridors. After breaking ties with the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the former Hermitage Amsterdam will now present exhibitions in partnership with the British Museum in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. The quality of the shows have always been excellent and the programming for the coming years looks promising. The Amsterdam Museum, which is undergoing massive renovations, has also taken up residency in a wing of the building, where it draws on its collection of 100,000 objects spanning almost five centuries to tell the fascinating story of a city that transformed itself from a boggy swamp in the 13th century to a worldwide mercantile powerhouse by the 1600s. Situated on the ground... READ MORE
Set on the Amstel river, in the stately Amstelhof (once a home for the elderly), this newly renamed museum features high white interiors and smaller side rooms connected by long unadorned corridors. After breaking ties with the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the former Hermitage Amsterdam will now present exhibitions in partnership with the British Museum in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. The quality of the shows have always been excellent and the programming for the coming years looks promising. The Amsterdam Museum, which is undergoing massive renovations, has also taken up residency in a wing of the building, where it draws on its collection of 100,000 objects spanning almost five centuries to tell the fascinating story of a city that transformed itself from a boggy swamp in the 13th century to a worldwide mercantile powerhouse by the 1600s. Situated on the ground floor, the Museum of the Mind showcases the inner worlds of artists through so-called outsider art.
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