Amsterdam Art Weekend
DISCOVER THE WORLD OF ART IN AMSTERDAM
27th – King’s Day
28-29 April
18-20 – May
And on demand
Day one
11:45 - Meeting at I Amsterdam Sign at Museumplein
Located at the back of the Rijksmuseum on Museumplein, the large I Amsterdam slogan quickly became a city icon and a much sought-after photo opportunity.
Address: Hobbemastraat 19, 1071 XZ Amsterdam
Rijksmuseum Highlights and special “High Society” exhibition
12:00 – 13:00 – Dutch masters highlights
13:00 - 14:00 - “High Society”
International masterpieces
Four centuries of fashion
Rembrandt’s Marten and Oopjen
Guilty Pleasures, including erotica art
Powerful royals, influential nobles, and splendidly wealthy people, looking their most beautiful in full regalia, had themselves portrayed by the world’s best artists. In spring 2018, the Rijksmuseum will present High Society: thirty-five life-size portraits by the great masters in art history: from Cranach to Velázquez and from Rembrandt to Manet.
14:10 – The most delicious hot-dog treat, right outside the Rijksmuseum at Museum Square
14:00 – 15:45 – Lunch at the elegant Sea Food Bar restaurant, 8 min walk from the square. Food and drinks are not included.
Van Gogh Museum
16:00 – 17:30 Let us guide you into Van Gogh’s world, the world’s largest collection of his artworks.
“Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.” Vincent Van Gogh
Sightseeing by Hop On Hop Off Boat at your own pace with champagne/wine
17:45 - Take a canal cruise through Amsterdam on our Hop On – Hop Off Boats - Valid 24h
This canal cruise takes you through all the famous canals and past all the famous museums of Amsterdam, like the Rijksmuseum and the Anne Frank House. It also makes stops at Rembrandt Square and the bustling Albert Cuyp Market.
Day 2
Hermitage Amsterdam
Dutch Masters from the Hermitage
13:00 – 14:30 art tour at the special exhibition Treasures of the Tsars
The great wealth acquired by the Northern Netherlands in the seventeenth century triggered a huge boom in painting.
The unique once in a lifetime opportunity to see of Dutch masters from the greatest treasures of the State Hermitage: the world’s leading collection of Dutch Golden Age painting outside the Netherlands now in ‘home-coming’ setting in Hermitage Amsterdam.