Rijksmuseum Research Library
Encyclopedia
The Rijksmuseum Research Library is the largest public art history
Art history
Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...

 research library
Research library
A research library is a library which contains an in-depth collection of material on one or several subjects . A research library will generally include primary sources as well as secondary sources...

 in the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. The library is part of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

The online web catalogue contains about 200,000 monograph
Monograph
A monograph is a work of writing upon a single subject, usually by a single author.It is often a scholarly essay or learned treatise, and may be released in the manner of a book or journal article. It is by definition a single document that forms a complete text in itself...

s, 3,200 periodicals and 30,000 art sales catalogues.

Visitors

Since the renovation of the Rijksmuseum building complex, which started in 2003, the library is no longer housed in the main building, designed by the architect P.J.H. Cuypers
Pierre Cuypers
Petrus Josephus Hubertus Cuypers was a Dutch architect. His name is most frequently associated with the Amsterdam Central Station and the Rijksmuseum , both in Amsterdam. More representative for his oeuvre, however, are numerous churches, of which he designed more than 100...

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The library is currently housed in the Frans van Mierisstraat 92 in Amsterdam, and is open from Tuesday till Saturday, from 10:00 till 17:00, with limited service between 13:00 and 14:00.

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