Visit the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

In Amsterdam, push the doors of the art marker presenting the paintings, drawings and letters of Van Gogh, all without queued!

Your departure for a weekend or a week to Amsterdam is imminent? A romantic getaway in the Netherlands? Discover a range of Dutch culture by going visit the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam! The painter is famous for his paintings, but his biography is often unknown to the general public.

The visit of the Van Gogh Museum

Located in the heart of the Dutch capital, on the Place du Musée (Museumplein), this museum entirely dedicated to the life and work of the post-impressionist painter was founded in 1973. It displays a breathtaking collection of more than 220 paintings, 500 drawings and more than 800 letters , including 652 letters of the intimate correspondence he held with his brother, Théodore Van Gogh.

Van Gogh painted 800 paintings in ten years! The museum has a quarter of its creations and is the largest collection in the world of paintings by the painter.

In addition to the possibility of discovering the life of the painter, it is an open door to the history of the 19th century art, because the museum also has paintings of renowned Impressionist painters such as Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Claude Monet or Georges Seurat. It is a “hospitable” of expressionism, naturalism, fauvism and impressionism, from the various pictorial currents announcing the modern art of the 20th century.

To visit the Van Gogh Museum, it is necessary to plan at least 2h30 inside.

You will discover the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh’s five major stages of life, namely the ups and downs of his tormented life until his suicide in 1890, at the age of 37:

• 1880-1885 : Netherlands,
• 1886-1888 : Paris,
• 1888-1889 : Arles,
• 1889-1890 : Saint-Rémy-de-Provence,
• 1890 : Auvers-sur-Oise.

In the chronological order of his life, contemplate the most famous paintings such as "The potatoes eaters" , "The Iris Wheat Field", "The bedroom" , « Les Tournesols » or his last painting, "The field of corn with crows" .

Book your ticket in advance

More than a million visitors visit the museum every year. In order to avoid endless queues at the entrance of the site, we recommend that you book an online ticket for the Van Gogh Museum in advance.

The benefits?

• You avoid losing time in the queue,
• You choose the visit schedule that best matches you,
• Present yourself in the blue priority line (reserved to people already equipped with their reservation),
• Be on time, even arrive 15 minutes in advance because there may be a strong affluence,
• Enter the museum by a specially dedicated door, without waiting for your tour – by the artists' door!,
• Present your e-ticket with a smartphone, which will be scanned by the museum’s reception services,
• Enjoy temporary and permanent exhibitions.

By receiving your skipper ticket for the Van Gogh Museum by e-mail, you will also avoid the risk of losing the paper ticket.

Hourly rates of the Van Gogh Museum

The Van Gogh Museum is located on Museumplein Square in N°6. The museum is open every day of the year but the schedules differ according to the seasons:

A tip: visit the museum from 9am to 11am or after 3pm. The most frequented hours are between 11am and 3pm. Please note that the last admission is 30 minutes before closing. The waiting line to visit the museum can be very long during very tourist times in the spring and summer. It is then useful to book a cut-file ticket online (for the same price, see the buttons on this item).

After your visit, you may want to paint yourself by returning from the Netherlands!