Posted on 08/28/2025 12:58:32 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Having been to it (2017)....I’ll say it’s worth seeing (one of the ten Amsterdam sights I’d recommend), and I agree...it is a aging building.
But the current entry fee is 24 Euro ($27) per adult, and 11 Euro for a student. Hefty cost. I would imagine they’ve looked at 30 Euro per adult but folks would shake their heads.
Dutch spending their cultural enrichment money on 3rd world trash
The funding was eerily cut off.
This is one of my favorite things to visit in Amsterdam....much better than the Anne Frank House, etc. The only place I liked more than the Van Gogh Museum is the Rijksmuseum. I don’t remember it costing anything like that much to get in though the last time I was there in 2003.
I imagine they could sell one painting and be at forever.
You’re going to leave people with a bad post-impression with puns like that.
Why don’t they make it interesting and add a Van Halen wing to the Van Gogh museum?
Heartbreaking.
I went to A-dam for St. Patrick’s Day weekend in ‘96 and walked past all the museums on my way to and from the Heineken plant. Back then, Heineken in Holland was sold in brown bottles but the beer itself was the best I’ve ever had. After walking past the Amsterdam Hilton, we walked into a cafe’ that had a special on red hash. On one of the walls was a TV tuned to reports of a nasty riot (Kurdish-Turkish) in Dusseldorf. We had been on our way to A-dam earlier that day on the Bahn when a German riot squad shut down traffic to let a series of green buses, K9 vans, transport vehicles and motorcycles through to the scene but we didn’t know at where they were going. After leaving that cafe’, we walked right past the Rembrandt Museum on our way to the Red Light district but it must’ve been the wrong one because most of the women we saw in those windows were older and way out of shape, so we walked past that and found another cafe’ that had Heineken on draft. The beautiful barmaid poured us a perfect pitcher and asked if we’d been to the museums and I said “maybe later” and “Happy St. Patrick’s Day”.
In first?!
They need to add some Hunter Biden paintings to their museum and people will FLOCK and pay good money to visit, they won’t need Dutch money...... There really IS a LAW of Supply and Demand... Personally I never saw REAL ART in Van Gogh. Maybe because his personal life looked a lot like a Minnesota Shooter.
Museums close all the time. It isn’t news. What did the museum do with the entrance fees? Did it received US Taxpayers money - from USAID?
A fanatical Van Gogh supporter cut their ear off in protest.
(Tomorrow’s headline today.)
Lol.
On my trade show trip to Amsterdam, I went to the Rijksmuseum, but the lines to get into the Van Gogh Museum were too long.
Wish we had more than a day for sightseeing.
I was in 2010. Worth the trip. Europe has a ton to offer. I’m glad I was able to go before all destroyed.
We have tickets to see this museum for next week.
Good. Enjoy! It’s interesting. Take the red district tour. Our tour guide was a retired prostitute. It’s just something different.
Van Gone..........................
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