1/4 A Night at the Rijksmuseum Reaction!

[@MLWitteman]

Thank you so much for sharing, and reacting to this video. As you’ve seen in this first clip, this museum is quite important to the Netherlands. So this one couldn’t be left out from the Netherlands Journey. I actually get to spend a lot of time there, because I work there, but I still get this feeling of amazement when I set foot inside this stunning building. I’m proud to share this one with you guys, and give you glimpse of my workplace. Hope you all will enjoy this four part journey through the Rijksmuseum.

[@dianebaven2457]

You are very lucky to have such a amazing work place, thanks for sharing ❤️✌️👍

[@throughthewindowpane]

You are one lucky man to work at such a beautiful place, Michel! Thanks for sharing.

[@Dasypodidae45]

Great request Michel!

[@tompham637]

I love museums. Every time I visit a country, that is the first place I want see to learn history, culture in the country. I also love art, where else to see it.

[@user-gb4yi2yo1w]

I went to the Rijksmuseum last Sunday. Every time I am there I am deeply impressed.

[@palantir135]

Rijksmuseum is a must see museum; by which I mean the whole museum. There are a lot of museums in the Netherlands

[@boxie001]

this was also done during the mega project of the north-south line(public transport underground) it was like holding your breath for 20 years to me.

[@edwinavanasselt2108]

OUR PRIDE AND JOY. Love it!

[@gerarddekoe4358]

One of the beautiful things of the building is that when your are in the entrancehall and you look up, you see people riding their bikes.

[@Doaria]

Looking forward the other parts, 😃

[@Esmeagolly]

As a history and cultural arts teacher, the Rijks is a treasure also, their library (which is open to the public) is INSANE. I still take yearly trips with my mom there

[@bertkassing8541]

I am from Amsterdam. When I was a little boy my father took me to the Rijksmuseum. I had to learn more about Dutch history. It made a big impression on me. I've been there more than once. Now, after the reopening, I really think it's the most beautiful museum I've ever been to. It really is fantastically beautiful! Actually, I thought it was moving. Something to be very proud of as a Dutchman.

[@jsb7975]

In history of Art from the Renaissance on you got two pillars: Italy and Netherlands. Don't forget that oil-painting mainly was invented in the southern Netherlands. Portrait painting, landscape painting, still-life painting all derived from this. Dutch golden age painting with all it's innovations became world-famous next to Italian painting..... (In 17th century only in Amsterdam more than thousend painters worked at the same time !) Dutch art made itself independent from religion for the first time in world history.

[@pietergreveling]

Really looking forward to the next three! 🤗👌🏼✌🏼

[@liesbethboesjes3307]

The Dutch and their bikes!🤣

[@wgsips]

Very nice museum! The video of Jeangu Macrooy ' Birth of A New Age' is filmed there, you should watch it one day.

[@emmap1250]

Looking forward to part two!

[@maidenekker]

I went with my children a few times, as part of their education. To see the paintings of Rembrand and Vermeer especially.

[@WillemO]

I'm happy they didn't close the bike tunnel, it would have chanced the identity of the building too much.

[@tillylovesholland1161]

I have lived behind that museum for over a year and walked underneath it to go to school every single day. I loved it. Its a very posh neighbourhood and i lived on the 5th floor so the view was amazing. This museum is our pride. The Nachtwacht from Rembrand van Rijn is hanging there among so many other great stuff. The architect Kuipers also has designd the railway station central station and frm the outside the buildings look very similar. The building itselves already is a piece of art on its own.

[@philsarkol6443]

This is a place, a building wich is a piece of art in itself, as it stands. I was there last year, and it was an emotional experience being so close to a Vermeer, or Rembrandt...If you come, take your time, don't rush, undergo every visit as the meeting with someone you gradually learn to know better. If one wants to learn about the dutch, this is a good place to start.

[@Solamnic31]

I worked at the Rijksmuseum the first 6 months after it's reopening. It was a hectic but fabulous time!

[@jetfromholland4533]

Kudos to the people who hung up those paintings. Nerves of steel is what you need! Had it been me, I bet it would would have become an “Even Apeldoorn bellen”-commercial.😂

[@ronbouwmans9200]

See de Nachtwacht the Nightwatch Rembrandts most famous painting and priceless

[@bennieleip579]

I don’t care about the building only about the history, I loved the section about the VOC times (also the paintings from those times )

[@jackyfriedman1963]

Wow!!! Very interesting. Thank you Highly.

[@spaceranger9570]

This is Holland/the Netherlands 🇳🇱! Our history, the golden days but also the pitch dark stuff you can find here. A must go! I never saw this documentary before but it’s making me so proud lol! The last time I went there was 4 years ago.. but I need to go again soon! I can’t w8 to hear and see your reaction after you visited it ^^ I am sure you are speechless and blown away :D hehe I hope you can come over soon! Because from what I see, you need to be here! And absorb us! Maybe until then, Much love and respect! Peace

[@erics320]

When Obama visited the netherlands he held a press conference in that museum in front of Rembrand's Nachwacht painting. No Obama fan, but i thought it was a nice event.

[@resi3794]

Or national proud, full of our history, that we love

[@MuzZ11_]

I'm from vlissingen But I really love going to the rijksmuseum ❤

[@eefvreeland9472]

Well thát describes the dutch best: If they don't like it, they won't set foot. Even the king :-)

[@tropenkindje1]

My favorite museum. You have to go many times, because after 1 day , you 've only seen a small part of it. Children untill the age of 18 can enter for free, So I went with my children at a very young age several times.Nowadays, they have a Museum jaarkaart

[@ronaldderooij1774]

I am Dutch and I studied in Amsterdam. I never somehow visited the Rijksmuseum. It was simply too crowdy for me (I cannot stand crowds).

[@clifffan3]

De Nachtwacht van Rembrand v Rijn.

[@knuffeldiertje]

07:00 this painting from Van Gogh is what i meant, with the oval red round beneath his face. I made a picture from it. Can send it if you want on Discord

[@johnslegers1974]

Kuipers de founder was from the City Roermond thats a fact

[@jaccovalkenburg79vdaal]

I only think what will be the insurance cost every month for these building.. I really want to go to the rijksmuseum. Iam I little bit shamed that i never visit it.. What will be the total cost of all the paintings and the rest of all objects ??? 💰💰💰💰💰 billions i think. Haha

[@frankaschapendonk7220]

Where did Rembrandt, Vermeer, mondriaan etc came from? Van Gogh ? Lets make one thing very clear. They did'nt come from Amsterdam.

[@dutchman7623]

Utrecht would have been a better place for the Rijksmuseum, central in the Netherlands, accessible, and a bit more neutral. Sometimes it feels a little like our treasures have been kidnapped to Amsterdam and Leiden (oudheid). While there are many more impressive local musea that can house art made, and found, in the original region.

[@MLWitteman]

The answer is pretty simple to be honest, and that’s money. Without the economic power of Amsterdam, we wouldn’t have had a big art scene in the Netherlands at all. Why move Rembrandt to Amsterdam? Simple, because the art market was much bigger in Amsterdam compared to the smaller city of Leiden. What artist inspired Vincent van Gogh to paint like he did? That was Rembrandt. When Van Gogh visited the Rijksmuseum, and saw the Jewish Bride painted by Rembrandt, he was stunned that someone was so brave to paint like he did. Yes, Utrecht is more central to the Netherlands. But the city lost its importance to cities like Amsterdam and The Hague well before the 17th century.

[@jsb7975]

@@MLWitteman the art-scene was impressive in it's developpement way before that. Think of Breughel, Jeroen Bosch, the Utrecht carravagisten, outside Amsterdam: Frans Hals, Vermeer, Hobbema and so on. Breitner,Isaac,Modriaan, you can go on. The Netherlands (also former Netherlands, now Belgium) has always been a country of Painters. Also before and after the golden-age....

[@MLWitteman]

@@jsb7975 you are absolutely right, but they all had one thing in common. And that’s the enormous wealth that was generated by the early trade centers. First Brugge and Antwerp, and later the cities of Holland. You needed to have a base of wealthy clients, to actually have a prosperous art-scene. Of course, it didn’t all happen in Amsterdam. Other cities like Haarlem produced actually much more painters. But you can’t deny the important impact which Amsterdam had on Dutch history.

[@jsb7975]

@@MLWitteman have to say you are right. Still the upcoming civillian culture predominantly in the southern Netherlands has to do with what leads to the repulic, already came up with an art culture (oilpainting mostly invented here) and a flood of influencual composers as well. The northern renaissance was a very dominant factor for what later evolves in a more secular society based on trade, science and art. (hence the "invention" of capitalism as we know it in later centuries) Sure you will agree. So yes, you are right too.

[@ngocho7265]

REACTION "HÃY TRAO CHO ANH" - SƠN TÙNG ft SNOOP DOGG. please!!!

[@Rogier7305]

Paintings só expensive they cant be insured.

[@gjgosdevi4005]

Just a reminder the Ntherlands is far from perfect. You might be in for a disapointment.