About the museum
The story of the Van Gogh Museum
The Van Gogh Museum opened on Amsterdam's Museumplein in 1973 to show the collection kept by the artist's family, above all his brother Theo's widow, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, and their son Vincent Willem.
It holds the largest collection of Van Gogh's work in the world, more than 200 paintings plus drawings and hundreds of letters, following his whole short career from the dark Dutch years to the blazing colour of Arles and Saint-Rémy.
The collection
The museum follows Van Gogh's life in order: the dark, earthy paintings of his Dutch years, the bright colours he discovered in Paris, the blazing works of Arles and Saint-Rémy and the last canvases from Auvers-sur-Oise.
Alongside the paintings, it holds around 500 drawings and most of his surviving letters, and it shows works by contemporaries who influenced him or whom he influenced, from Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec to Japanese woodblock prints.
At ArtLogia you can order 186 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 13 artists led by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Camille Pissarro.
- paintings to order
- 186
- artists
- 13
- art movements
- 5
- years covered
- 1850–1906
The building
The main building was designed by Gerrit Rietveld and opened in 1973. In 1999 a curved exhibition wing by the Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa was added, and in 2015 a glass entrance hall opened onto the Museumplein.
Masterpieces to see
SunflowersVincent van Gogh, 1887 · Hand-painted reproduction available
The Potato EatersVincent van Gogh, 1885 · Hand-painted reproduction available
The BedroomVincent van Gogh, 1888 · Hand-painted reproduction available
Almond BlossomVincent van Gogh, 1890 · Hand-painted reproduction available
Wheatfield with CrowsVincent van Gogh, 1890 · Hand-painted reproduction available
Planning a visit
Tickets are sold online only and for a set time slot, so book before you travel.
