CA8
- Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam
Together with my art class and a teacher I went to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In this CA I
am going to explain what I knew, saw, experienced, and learned.
What did I already know about the Stedelijk Museum?
I knew that there were more Stedelijk Museums in the Netherlands. I know that more cities have
one. I also knew that it featured modern or contemporary art, which is not really my cup of tea. My
knowledge ends there.
What is The Stedelijk Museum?
The Stedelijk Museum was opened in 1895 after 4 years of construction. The architecture of the old
building was by Adriaan Willem Weissman. It is located on Museum Plein close to the Rijksmuseum ,
Van Goghmuseum, and Diamantmuseum. In the Second World War the museum transferred some of
its most important works to a safe bunker in Santpoort. The museum remained open though. In
2003 the Stedelijk Museum objects had to relocate since the building they were in didn’t meet the
cirteria of the fire department. It took the museum nearly ten years to rebuilt, and extendhe
museum. In 2012 it reopened its doors with a new head entrance and a renovated interior. Today the
museum contains about 90 000 objects and attracks around 700 000 visitors (in 2013).
What does the Stedelijk Museum consist of?
The museum has some of the world’s most famous contemporary and modern art works. The
collections are divided into several divisions:
Paintings
Sculptures
Moving obejcts
Sound
Light
Photogrphic pictures
Posters
Drawings
Etc.
Some of the artists who have art displayed in the museum:
Vincent van Gogh
Wassily Kandinsky
Karel Appel
Andy Warhol
Marlene Dumas
Henri Matisse
Etc.
The amount of artworks and the variety in styles and art forms makes it difficult to really explain
what the museum consists of.
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