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.

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"It sometimes seems as if everything that could have gone wrong with the Museumplein building projects has gone wrong, " said Wim Pijbes, the Rijksmuseum's general director, told The Art Newspaper back in 2011.

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In Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, most of the hundreds of thousands of people who'd gathered in the Museumplein square to watch the game on a giant screen filtered out in stunned silence after the final whistle, leaving behind trampled orange hats and a smattering of tearful people sitting on crates with their heads in their hands.

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