The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is the largest collection of Van Gogh’s works in the world with 200 paintings, 437 drawings and 31 prints, including the famous Sunflowers, White Garden and Yellow House, as well as many self-portraits of the artist. Works by other celebrated 19th-century painters, including Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Jean François Millet can also be seen here. The museum recently acquired two paintings by Monet dating from his Dutch period.

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A visit to the Van Gogh Museum is impossible to forget. The museum consists of two buildings: the original main part, designed by Gerrit Rietveld, opened in 1973, and the exhibition wing, designed by Kisho Kurokawa, was opened in 1999. Kisho Kurokawa’s elliptically shaped modern construction blends beautifully with Rietveld’s functionally designed building next door.

The Van Gogh Museum overlooks Paulus Potterstraat and Museum Place. A few years ago there was a freeway through the square and it was rather impersonal. Now, however, it is a large open space where one can meet, stroll around, and discuss the works of art that visitors have just had the opportunity to see.