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Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is enormous. To explore this whole set you will need several days. In a few hours you can only see the Rembrandts and Vermeers. The absolute focal point of the museum is Rembrandt de Rijn's Night Watch, the huge pompous painting, which has been cut from three sides because of the lack of space. This has affected a bit on the perspective, but the effect of light and shadows is still there. There are a lot of similar abundant plentiful paintings, some of them a bit macabre. It was really fine to see Johannes Vermeer's street scene from Delft in nature. A poster of the painting was hanging on my student lodging's wall quite a long time. It was surprising to see how the structure of the painting was visible, the white parts were almost like a relief. One whole room was dedicated to Henri de Touloise Lautrec's colour lithographs, and they were gorgeous. Couple of TV programs came to my mind: a document of the renovation of Rijksmuseum where they were fighting about the protection of the cycle route trough the museum (it was remained) and a drama where a doll's house had a meaningful part (British The Miniaturist).