Ad Amsterdam, we all agree in saying that there are a thousand things to do, of the most varied, crazy, funny, but to avoid a visit to the Van Gogh museum would mean making an own goal, a wrong in your eyes and your aesthetic sense. Here is a short sheet that summarizes its characteristics and peculiarities, testifying that it is truly an unmissable attraction.
What not to miss: Van Gogh Museum
Visit time: 1,5 / 2 hours. For those who think it is a sacrifice, I assure you that it is not, on the contrary it is a pleasure given moreover by the slow pace that is acquired along the way.
Cost: Entrance to the museum is free if you have the Amsterdam city card. The entrance ticket costs 15 euros whether you buy it at the cashier or online, in this second case, however, there is the great advantage of skipping the queue, as there is a dedicated fast lane.
Waiting time: with the purchase of the ticket on the spot, you can easily spend a good half hour in the queue (minimum), only this confirms the online purchase and the choice of the day and time of entry.
Color color color: the collection of Van Gogh's paintings communicates above all this: the great ability of this nineteenth century artist to use very bright and above all complementary colors in his masterpieces, capable of enhancing the evocative power already typical of the subjects represented.
Value added: absolute integration of reality with the digital world. Over and over again during the visit you are invited to download theTouch Van Gogh app from itunes or from Google Play which allows you to examine in depth a series of selected paintings. This means that you can discover the details of the painting technique commonly known as multilayer, that you can separate the various levels of color and chronologically reconstruct the stages of realization of the work, that you can see the paintings in their original colors thanks to the rdigital construction that brings to life tones of red now lost, purple, blue and orange today faded, etc. For those not equipped with a tablet or smartphone during the visit, the museum provides a fixed tablet in each room for an experience within everyone's reach.
In detail, the software on which the app is based was developed so that the presence of color pigment was perceived and the concentration was hypothesized stretch by line, reaching reproduce a result plausibly similar to the original.
For children and to learn more: on the second floor, a display case shows the tools of the painter of the nineteenth century, from palettes, to pedestals for outdoor painting, from fabrics to basic frames for paintings. Many of the exhibits are original and belonged to Van Gogh. Gods are set up on the third floor laboratory tables that allow viewed under the microscope of canvases used to paint, of portions of paintings reproduced on different canvases, of color powder as they were used at the time, in order to deepen the studies on color and on the techniques experimented by Van Gogh himself. Also on this floor there is a corner dedicated to study of perspective both on touch screen and on paper, thanks to the frame actually used by Van Gogh during his paintings in the open air in the Parisian period.
The story in a video: in the basement a real, very intimate and silent projection room was designed. A film-interview on the painter's life completes the visitor's training by taking him to Van Gogh's places from the beginning in the Netherlands, to Paris, to the south of France through the development through images of the artistic training path that gave the enchanting results displayed on the upper floors .
