Rijksmuseum (building)
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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam offers an overview of Dutch art and history, including works by 17th-century Dutch masters such as Rembrandt, Vermeer and Hals. The museum has been housed in the Rijksmuseum building since 1885, which was designed by the Dutch architect Pierre Cuypers.
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In 1885, the current Rijksmuseum building was built after a design by P.J.H. Cuypers completed. This building not only housed the collection of the Rijksmuseum, but also the collection of works by living masters, which was housed in the Museum of Living Dutch Masters in Haarlem from 1838, and the Netherlands Museum for History and Art in The Hague. housed new building. In 1918 the Nederlandsche Oudheidkundige Bond published the brochure About reform and management of our museums. This called for a division of the Netherlands Museum for History and Art into an art and a historical museum. This split actually came about in 1927.











