Operation Night Watch is the largest and most wide-ranging research and conservation project in the history of Rembrandt’s masterpiece. The goal of Operation Night Watch is the long-term preservation of the painting. Read more about Operation Night Watch.

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Inspired by a Caravaggio

How a Caravaggio painting inspired the spring tensioning system of The Night Watch

March video update

The Night Watch has a new stretcher

Completion of the structural treatment

A new stretcher for The Night Watch

February video update

Start of the treatment

Treatment of The Night Watch started

Rembrandt's masterpiece goes face down!

Structural treatment of The Night Watch

What is being done?

Hoisting paintings

An accident in 1901