Amsterdam’s rijksmuseum puts its 709,000 priceless artworks online for free

Amsterdam’s renowned Rijksmuseum has made digital countless artworks by old as well as contemporary modern artists, including Van Gogh, for free. The museum is a popular tourist hotspot in

the Netherlands and it remains crowded with art-lovers any time of the day. The museum is a treasure trove of paintings by eminent artists including Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Van Dyck. These

paintings are priceless as they represent world art history. The museum has digitised and made nearly 709,000 artworks available free for an online watch. An impressive and easy-to-explore

online collection has been created by the museum authorities, wherein every object and painting is described in detail. Not only this, most of the museum collection is under the public

domain, which means that people can easily download and even customisable museum treasure for free. Interested people can easily search the online collection, which is known as _Rijks

Studio_. The work can be searched in artist, object type, period, and place categories. Some of the best work includes magnificent 17th century portraits by Frans Hals, ornate furniture,

such as an opulent dollhouse in a cabinet, and several life-size paintings. In the last 20 years, the Rijksmuseum has been working progressively towards digitising their extensive priceless

collections. And now, given the pandemic situation, museums everywhere are looking for new ways to make their collections available and accessible to the common public. Now, _Rijks Studio

_collection can be downloaded, edited and can be used as screensavers too. All you need to do is register with a free account on the museum’s official website and save your favorite images.

You can also order prints and make a Van Gogh phone case or a screen-printed tote!