The Rijksmuseum virtually opens its doors with virtual tours of the museum and works

Like most museums around the world, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam opens its doors virtually to everyone and offers many initiatives on its official website to allow visitors to dive into the museum’s collections and delve into works and stories: the Rijksmuseum comes through the web into everyone’s homes.

Through podcasts, curators, experts, and artists tell stories about the artworks and the artists who created them, while in a series of videos available on the museum’s YouTube channel, curators share stories about their favorite works from home-that’s why the videos are part of the #Rijksmuseumfromhome initiative.

To virtually visit the celebrated museum, a multimedia tour through its halls can be accessed, and thanks to the digital journey, more than eighteen masterpieces in the Hall of Fame can be delved into with text and audio content.

With Rijksstudio, users can view, download, and share about 700 thousand works from the museum’s collection in high resolution for free: everyone can create their own collection; on RijksCreative, on the other hand, teachers from the Teekenschool explain through short tutorials the techniques of the great masters.
Instagram stories exclusively show behind-the-scenes trivia and details of the famous museum venue.

Many offerings are dedicated to families and children, such as coloring pages, comics and special magazines for the little ones.

Finally on Operation Night Watch, experts take the public into Rembrandt’s famous painting Ronda by Night: videos and articles dedicated to the research carried out on the work, and with Experience the Night Watch it is possible to immerse oneself among the characters depicted to learn all the secrets and stories kept in Rembrandt’s masterpiece.

Image: Rembrandt, Night Watch (1640-1642; oil on canvas, 363 x 437 cm; Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum)

The Rijksmuseum virtually opens its doors with virtual tours of the museum and works

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