Cookie usage

The Rijksmuseum uses cookies. A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit our site. Would you like to know more? Read our cookie policy.

Skip to main content
  • Login Giftshop
    • Nederlands (Dutch)
    • English (English)
    • Besucherinformationen
    • Service visiteur
    • Informazioni per i visitatori
    • Informacion para los visitantes
    • Informashon pa bishita
    • ビジター·インフォメーション
    • 游客信息
    • Информация для посетителей
    • Visit
    • What's on
    • Stories
    • Rijksstudio: the collection
    • Support us
    • Giftshop
    • Research
    Go to
    • Families and children
    • Groups
    • Friends
    • Education & Schools
    • Accessibility
    • Press
    Ministry of Education, Culture and Science logo

    Founder

    Philips - Engels logo

    Main sponsors

    Vriendenloterij - ENG logo
    ING - Engels logo
    KPN - Engels logo
    Created with NEMO Science Museum

    Mission Masterpiece

    Explore with the whole family

  • Conservation & Science
    • Nederlands (Dutch)
    • English (English)
    • Besucherinformationen
    • Service visiteur
    • Informazioni per i visitatori
    • Informacion para los visitantes
    • Informashon pa bishita
    • ビジター·インフォメーション
    • 游客信息
    • Информация для посетителей
  • Login
  • Giftshop
  • Rijksmuseum tickets
Een foto van een onderzoeker die een schilderij bekijkt

Science

Our researchers are primarily concerned with science for the benefit of art. Imaging, spectroscopic and microscopic techniques are used to find out how something is made, what the causes of degradation are and how this can best be prevented.

Benzyl Alcohol Derivatives

Fundamental research in the cleaning of oil paintings

Printed in plain sight

Digital techniques for virtual reconstruction and analysis of prints

Glass instability

The early detection of glass instability and monitoring the degradation process

Fragile!

The prediction of damage to 18th-century pastels subjected to vibrations during transport

Laser Speckle Imaging

Monitoring dynamic processes in oil paint, paper and metal

Rembrandts impasto

Revealing the recipe used by Rembrandt to achieve one of his most famous techniques

Stern carving from the Royal Charles Stern carving from the Royal Charles

The stern decoration of the Royal Charles

Scientific and historical research of a pinnacle of maritime heroism (c. 1663)

Changed lead pigments

Tracking the formation of inorganic compounds in Old Masters paintings

Visitor information

Open daily 9 to 17h
Museumstraat 1, Amsterdam

  • About us
  • Press
  • Careers
  • Contact
Donate today Newsletter
anbi logo
Instagram logo
Facebook logo
Youtube logo
Twitter logo
Tiktok logo
Linkedin logo
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science logo

Founder

Philips - Engels logo

Main sponsors

Vriendenloterij - ENG logo
ING - Engels logo
KPN - Engels logo
Terms and conditions Privacy Cookie Policy Right of withdrawal