The reopening coincides with improvements to the two other stellar museums in the immense public space known as the Museumplein, in the affluent Old South quarter.
But by then Mr Ferri's investigation had achieved its aim: Aphrodite was back in Italy, along with dozens of other looted antiquities from American museums.
The call was issued the same day that the FBI announced agents are being sent to Iraq to assist with criminal investigations against people who looted museums and other sites.
Meanwhile the National Museums and Galleries of Wales, along with seven other quangos, have begun questioning whether the assembly government has the power to abolish them.
Inside, the space is syncopated into easy bays with carefully positioned skylights for natural light, instead of the baroquely high-tech contraptions favored at othermuseums.