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Completion of the structural treatment

February video update

From the series Operation Night Watch

After extensive research, the next phase of Operation Night Watch has started. Paintings Conservator Anna Krekeler tells about the treatment of deformations, the removal of the stretcher and the vacuuming of the back of The Night Watch.

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Treatment of The Night Watch started

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

Hoisting paintings

5 min. reading time - An accident in 1901

Structural treatment of The Night Watch

5 min. reading time - What is being done?

February video update

2:05 min. - Start of the treatment

Completion of the structural treatment

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

March video update

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

Inspired by a Caravaggio

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