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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10 min. readig time - How a Caravaggio painting inspired the spring tensioning system of The Night Watch

1:19 min. - The Night Watch has a new stretcher

5 min. reading time - A new stretcher for The Night Watch

2:05 min. - Start of the treatment

0:55 min. - Rembrandt's masterpiece goes face down!

5 min. reading time - What is being done?

5 min. reading time - An accident in 1901