Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam possesses one of the world’s main collections of modern art and design. Works by big names, such as Appel, Chagall, De Kooning, Malevich, Matisse, Mondriaan, Picasso, Rietveld and Warhol, are exhibited. This puts the Stedelijk Museum on a par with the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Tate Modern in London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Classical and contemporary Art in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

When the Stedelijk Museum reopens on Museumplein in Amsterdam in 2010, this historical building will have undergone a complete facelift. The new main entrance will be on Museumplein, and a sizable new section will have been added. The New Stedelijk Museum will be both a classical museum and a contemporary platform. In addition to more or less chronological presentations of the collection in the old part of the building, the new section of the museum, nicknamed ‘the bathtub’, will feature exciting presentations of present-day art.

History of the Stedelijk Museum

The Stedelijk Museum first opened its doors in 1895. The collection comprised antiques, jewellery, coins and silver baubles, acquired from an estate. The ‘Amsterdam Association to Set Up a Public Collection of Contemporary Art’ moved to the Stedelijk in that same year. This Association exhibited its collection of contemporary French and Dutch masters in the museum. Post World War II, the Museum for Modern Applied Art merged with the Stedelijk Museum.

Read on about the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam or learn more about other Amsterdam museums, like:
Hermitage Amsterdam
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam