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The Philips Wing, which has remained open throughout the renovations, showing a small selection from the museum's Golden Age collection, including The Night Watch, will stay open until the grand opening on 13 April.
BBC: The Rijksmuseum
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During the decade-long closure of the Cuypers building, the museum continued to show a portion of its holdings in the modern Philips wing, giving the curators a chance to experiment with mixed methods of presentation and to learn what works and what doesn't.
WSJ: A Great Museum Enters a New Golden Age | Rijksmuseum | Rembrandt | Vermeer | By Jonathan Lopez
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Exhibits of this type not only help to fulfill the Rijksmuseum's dual art and history mandate, but based on my own observations of how things worked in the Philips wing, they seem to be particularly effective in engaging the interest of children a shrewd strategy.
WSJ: A Great Museum Enters a New Golden Age | Rijksmuseum | Rembrandt | Vermeer | By Jonathan Lopez
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In the Philips wing for instance, Gerrit Berckheyde's "The 'Golden Bend' in the Herengracht" (1671-72), a shimmering, timeless image of one of Amsterdam's principal canals and a recent acquisition, was tastelessly used as a prop in a didactic display on the history of Dutch urban development.
WSJ: A Great Museum Enters a New Golden Age | Rijksmuseum | Rembrandt | Vermeer | By Jonathan Lopez