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Attractions & Activities: More Museums & Galleries
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Museum Het Rembrandthuis
For the greatest of Rembrandt's masterpieces you must visit the Rijksmuseum, but in this house you'll find a more intimate sense of the artist himself. Bought by Rembrandt in 1639 when he was Amsterdam's most fashionable portrait painter, the house is now a shrine to one of the greatest artists the world has ever known. Here Rembrandt's son Titus was born and his wife Saskia died. The artist was bankrupt when he left the house in 1658 (the company of Captain Banning Cocq portrayed in The Night Watch hated the artistic freedom Rembrandt had exercised on their group portrait--this helped ruin his previously brilliant career), and it wasn't until 1906 that the building was rescued from a succession of subsequent owners and restored as a museum. By May 1999, renovations will have been completed to return the house to the way it looked when Rembrandt lived and worked there. Visitors will find Rembrandt's printing press back in place, and 250 of his etchings and drawings hanging on the walls. These works include self-portraits and landscapes; several relate to the traditionally Jewish character of the neighborhood, such as the portrait of Rabbi Menassah ben Israel, who lived across the street and was an early teacher of another illustrious Amsterdammer, Baruch Spinoza. In 1998, a modern wing was added.
Jodenbreestraat 4-6
(at Waterlooplein).
Phone: 020/520-0400 .
Open: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun and holidays 1-5pm.
Admission Dfl 7.50 adults, Dfl 5 children 10-15, free for children under 10.
Tram: 9, 14, or 20 to Mr. Visserplein.
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