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Stedelijk Museum: the twentieth century on Museumplein

Next door to Van Gogh is the museum that shows what came after him. The Stedelijk has collected the art of its own time for more than a century, and it was here, in the decades after the war, that Amsterdam learned to look at the new.

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    What to see at the Stedelijk

    1. Malevich

      One of the largest groups of Kazimir Malevich's paintings outside Russia, from his peasant figures to the pure squares and crosses of Suprematism.

    2. Mondrian and De Stijl

      Piet Mondrian's grids of black lines and primary colours, and the furniture of Gerrit Rietveld, among them the Red Blue Chair.

    3. Matisse's Parakeet and the Mermaid

      A wall of cut and painted paper, leaves, fruit, a bird and a swimming figure, made by Matisse in 1952 when he could no longer paint at the easel.

    4. Chagall and the Expressionists

      Chagall's Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers, and paintings by Kirchner, Kandinsky and the painters of the early century.

    5. Karel Appel and CoBrA

      The bright, childlike, violent pictures of the group of painters from Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam who started out in 1948.

    6. Design

      Chairs, posters, ceramics and typography from a century of Dutch and international design, one of the museum's great strengths.

    Tickets and tours for the Stedelijk

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      Amsterdam: Stedelijk- The Modern Art Museum of Amsterdam

      Entry to the Stedelijk Museum and its collection of modern art and design.

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      • Entry to the Stedelijk's collection
      • Modern art and design from 1900 to now

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    Visiting the Stedelijk: hours and admission

    Opening hours

    Every day, public holidays included
    10:00 to 18:00, last entry 17:45
    • On a few days a year the museum opens at 9:00 instead of 10:00. Its site gives the dates.
    • A ticket is valid all day.

    Who gets in free

    • Visitors under 19. The museum asks them to book a free ticket online, to skip the queue at the desk.
    • The shop, the cafés and the sculpture hall can be visited without a ticket.

    Getting there

    Tram and metro
    Museumplein or Van Baerlestraat tram stop, two minutes on foot.
    On foot
    Next door to the Van Gogh Museum, and five minutes across Museumplein from the Rijksmuseum.
    By car
    There is a car park under Museumplein, entered from the Van Baerlestraat. The streets around the museum are paid parking.

    Address

    Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
    Museumplein 10
    1071 DJ Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Entrances

    The entrance is in the white new wing facing Museumplein, which joins the old building of 1895 behind it. Backpacks are not allowed in the galleries.

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    Before you go

    • Backpacks are not allowed in the galleries. Travel light.
    • The shop, the cafés and the sculpture hall can be visited without a ticket.
    • The Van Gogh Museum and the Moco are a minute away, and the Rijksmuseum across the square.

    A municipal museum that bought the new

    The Stedelijk, the municipal museum, opened on 14 September 1895, in a brick building in the Dutch Neo-Renaissance style by Adriaan Willem Weissman, paid for largely by the bequest of a collector, Sophia Adriana de Bruyn.

    In the twentieth century it became one of the great museums of modern art in Europe. It bought early and boldly: the Russian avant-garde, the Dutch movement De Stijl, the CoBrA painters of the post-war years, American Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

    In 2012 the museum reopened with a new wing by Benthem Crouwel Architects, a smooth white form on Museumplein that Amsterdam nicknamed the bathtub. It holds the entrance and the large exhibition halls, and joins the old building behind it.

    Stedelijk Museum: common questions

    What are the opening hours of the Stedelijk?
    Every day, public holidays included: 10:00 to 18:00, last entry 17:45. On a few days a year the museum opens at 9:00 instead of 10:00. Its site gives the dates. A ticket is valid all day.
    Is the Stedelijk ever free?
    Visitors under 19. The museum asks them to book a free ticket online, to skip the queue at the desk. The shop, the cafés and the sculpture hall can be visited without a ticket.
    What does the ticket include?
    Entry to the Stedelijk's collection. Modern art and design from 1900 to now. It is sold by GetYourGuide.
    What is the Stedelijk Museum known for?
    Modern and contemporary art and design: Malevich, Mondrian and De Stijl, Matisse, Chagall, Karel Appel and CoBrA, Pollock, de Kooning and Warhol, and a large collection of design.
    Why is the Stedelijk called the bathtub?
    Because of the shape of its new wing, opened in 2012: a smooth white form by Benthem Crouwel Architects that rises from Museumplein.
    How long does a visit to the Stedelijk take?
    Two to three hours for the collection and the exhibitions.

    What visitors say about the Stedelijk

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    4.4

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