The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam is one of the most popular attractions in the city. It is visited by art aficionados from all over the world. This is a notice if you are planning to visit the museum in Amsterdam anytime soon, because if you do, better make it before October next year, or plan it after March the year after.
This is because the Van Gogh Museum will be closing its doors from Oct 2012 to March 2013. The museum will be undergoing some much needed renovations as well as improvements in security, both for art work as well as visitors.
Tourists will still have the chance to see seventy five of the works of Van Gogh’s works at the Hermitage Museum Amsterdam. This is a Netherlands branch of the famous art museum of the same name in Russia.
The Van Gogh Museum is set to re open with a lot of festivity in the year 2013. This is the fortieth anniversary since the establishment of the museum, and also the hundred and sixtieth birthday of Vincent Van Gogh himself.