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Van Gogh Musuem

The Van Gogh museum contains the world’s largest collection of paintings and drawings of Vincent Van Gogh. Many of Van Gogh’s contemporaries are also featured in the Van Gogh museum. The building was completed in 1972, designed by Gerrit Rietvelt (an addition was built in 1999 by Kisho Kurokawa).

 


magellan

I think this is my favorite museum of all time. Not only is it amazing to see such a complete collection of Van Gogh's works in one place, but the Van Gogh Museum does a great job of telling the story that accompanies the different phases of Van Gogh's work, ending in his suicide. The museum leads you around a maze chronologically. By the end, I was pretty wrapped up in the story and the progression (and then degression) that you could see in his paintings. When his skills started to diminish and his madness became to great, there's a chilling quote from him that goes something like this "I know I am a failure and I have left nothing." If Van Gogh could only know the impact he had...
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• Review posted on 09/25/2007
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