Gallery sights in Amsterdam
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Stedelijk Museum
Built in 1895 to a neo-Renaissance design by AM Weissman, the Stedelijk Museum is the permanent home of the National Museum of Modern Art. The modern classics here are among the world’s most admired, amassed with great skill by postwar curator Willem Sandberg. The permanent collection includes all the blue chips of 19th- and 20th-century painting – Monet, Picasso and Chagall among them – as well as sculptures by Rodin, abstracts by Mondrian and Kandinsky, and much, much more.
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De Appel
Despite its location in the antiques street of the Spiegel Quarter, this contemporary arts foundation is anything but old-fashioned. Rather, it's a large art and media space with ever-changing exhibits of contemporary works: installation pieces, painting, sculpture and multimedia. Themes vary, but the aim is always to present something not otherwise readily available to the Dutch public. Phone or check the website to find out what's on.
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FOAM
FOAM is an impressive museum devoted to photography. Two storeys of changing exhibitions feature world-renowned photographers such as Sir Cecil Beaton, Annie Leibovitz and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Simple, functionalist and large galleries, some with skylights or grand windows for natural light, provide the setting for this impressive museum – accessible and inspiring, yet always critical.
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Civic Guard Gallery
Walk to the Civic Guard Gallery, where the group portraits of medieval, ruffled-collar gents are in stark contrast to Rembrandt’s more dynamic Nightwatch – the most famous of the group-portrait Dutch paintings in the Rijksmuseum. This is one of the world’s largest collections of such group portraits, and it’s free. Don’t miss it.
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