Where is Rijksmuseum?

March 8, 2023

The Rijksmuseum is the Netherlands’ national museum. It is dedicated to Dutch arts and history. It is situated in Amsterdam in Museum Square, close to the Van Gogh Museum. It was founded in The Hague on November 19, 1798. It was shifted to Amsterdam in 1808.

Why is Rijkmuseum in News?

The Night Watch at Rijksmuseum is a famous painting by Rembrandt – a Dutch Golden Age painter. Members belonging to the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion protested close to the famous painting in Amsterdam to oppose the Rijksmuseum’s partnership with the airline KLM and bank ING.

Another notable development is the recent exhibition on slavery. The event involved exhibits like the ‘tronco’ (a wooden plank brace used to restrain slaves) from the Netherlands, collars, etc.

What is special about Rijksmuseum?

The museum is famous for its masterpieces such as The Milkmaid, Self Portrait of Van Gogh, Rembrandt’s Night Watch, The Merry Family, etc. It means the State Museum in English. The museum was founded in 1798. The museum displays more than 8,000 art pieces. It has a collection of more than 1 million objects belonging to the 1200-2000 centuries.

The Rijksmuseum was inspired by the French museum the Louvre.

Rijksmuseum and the Creative Common Universal License

The museum made 125,000 images available for download. The numbers are being increased every year. Every year, the museum is increasing its numbers. The target has been set to one million images! These images are to be available for download under the Creative Commons 1.0 Universe License. What does this mean? Anybody can use images with this license. If an author has got patented rights for his painting, you cannot download or use that painting even as wallpaper. However, the images with Creative Commons 1.0 Universal License can be downloaded and can be used for personal purposes.

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