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Following five years of intensive research and the re-stretching of the painting, a team of eight Rijksmuseum conservators started removing the varnish from "The Night Watch". This marks the beginning of the second phase of Operation Night Watch, the biggest ever research and restoration project devoted to this masterpiece by Rembrandt. Removing the old varnish will enable us to preserve the painting for future generations. Visitors are able to follow the process live in the Night Watch Gallery, where the restoration work is being carried out with microscopic precision in the see-through glass chamber.

The exhibition offers an overall picture of all the planet’s perspectives – both from the scientific and from the cultural and historical points of view

Curators and Researchers
Kathy Halbreich (NY), Yukie Kamiya (NY), and Pi Li (Hong Kong) will be on site

Western gorillas travel in cohesive groups. To stay together, they need to coordinate when and where to go. Despite the silverback being the dominant and most powerful individual in the group, researchers from the University of Neuchatel and of the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle observed that all the individuals seem to participate in the decision-making process.

Per la prima volta in assoluto visitabile in pianta stabile: si inizia il 29 settembre, poi da novembre tour accompagnati ogni domenica

Nel corso dei secoli in questi spazi hanno vissuto sovrani, regine e principi: tra questi Maria de' Medici (poi Regina di Francia) il granduca Ferdinando II, il cardinale Leopoldo

Il direttore Simone Verde: “Via con le restituzioni degli spazi della Reggia al pubblico: prossime tappe Appartamenti Reali e Tesoro dei Granduchi”