Rijksmuseum
National museum of Dutch art and history, home to Rembrandt's Night Watch and the Golden Age.
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This guide to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam follows the turbulent life of Rembrandt's Night Watch, hanging at the end of the long gallery ahead of you, and the attackers who have gone after it over the past century, a navy cook with a knife in 1911 and a man named Wilhelmus de Rijk in 1975. You'll hear how conservators spent years stitching the 1975 gashes shut, thread by resin-soaked thread. Stand close to the captain's costume and look for the faint lines where the knife went in.
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