Hermitage Amsterdam is housed in the classically proportioned Amstelhof, built in 1681-83 as a charitable home for the elderly, which must been seen by Tsar Peter the Great during his stay in Amsterdam. Renovated at a cost of some 40 million euros (approximately $50 million), the building has been redesigned as a series of open and light filled galleries by architect Hans van Heeswijk. The interior and opening exhibition are designed by Merkx+Girod architects. More than an exhibition space, the 9,925 square metre building (107,000 square feet) is alive throughout the day and night with dining in the café restaurant Neva and on the outdoor terrace in summer; concerts and lectures in the restored Church hall; events in the 400-seat auditorium; shopping in a pair of retail stores; meetings in gracious conference rooms; and relaxed contemplation in the courtyard garden designed by landscape architect Michael van Gessel. The adjacent Neerlandia building, where ten exhibitions visited by more than half a million people have been presented since 2004, became the Hermitage for Children, a special wing for education, with an exciting programme of classes and workshops.
Hermitage Amsterdam
A major new European cultural destination, the greatly expanded Hermitage Amsterdam, welcomes visitors to its elegantly restored 17th-century building in the historic heart of Amsterdam. Founded to bring the richness and grandeur of Russia’s artistic heritage to one of the West’s most charming capitals, this independent cultural institution inaugurates its spacious new home — ten times the size of the previous building — with the exhibition At the Russian Court, a dazzling display of more than 1,800 treasures from the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
Hermitage Amsterdam is the only dedicated, independently managed venue in the West of St Petersburg’s magnificent State Hermitage Museum. The current exibition is "Rubens, Van Dyck & Jordaens, Flemish painters from the Hermitage".
Hermitage Amsterdam will stage two large-scale, temporary exhibitions each year, drawing on the encyclopaedic collections and unparalleled scholarship of Russia’s museums to offer cultural riches that would otherwise be unavailable in Amsterdam.
The Hermitage Amsterdam is opened daily from 10 AM - 5 PM uur and on Wednesdays untill 8 PM. Closed on December 25th, January 1st and April 30th.
The Hermitage Amsterdam is located on Amstel 51.
Future exhibitions:
Rubens, Van Dyck & Jordaens
September 2011 – March 2012
Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis
March 2012 – September 2012
The Impressionists
September 2012 – March 2013
Peter the Great
March 2013 – September 2013
Siberia
September 2013 – March 2014
Russia before Peter the Great
March 2014 – September 2014
250 years Hermitage!
September 2014 – March 2015
Tsar Alexander I and Napoleon
March 2015 – September 2015
