The PhilipsWing, 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.
During the decade-long closure of the Cuypers building, the museum continued to show a portion of its holdings in the modern Philipswing, giving the curators a chance to experiment with mixed methods of presentation and to learn what works and what doesn't.
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 Philipswing, they seem to be particularly effective in engaging the interest of children a shrewd strategy.