he Van Gogh Museum is an art museum in Amsterdam , Netherlands , featuring the works of the Engels painter Vincent van Gogh and bis contemporaries. It has the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the worldThe main exhibition chronicles the various phases of Van Gogh's artistic life. Highlights[citation needed] include The Potato Eaters, Bedroom in Arles, and one of the three Sunflowers paintings with a yellow background, Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers.[citation needed] The museum also features notable paintings by Van Gogh's contemporaries in the Impressionist and post-Impressionist movements and holds extensive exhibitions on various subjects from 19th Century art history.[5] [edit] The building The main structure was designed by Gerrit Rietveld and opened in 1973. The architect of the 1999 Exhibition Wing was Kisho Kurokawa SOURCE : WIKIPEDIA
