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- Title
From research library to research services: Stories of change at the Rijksmuseum.
- Authors
Koot, Geert-Jan
- Abstract
The Rijksmuseum project in Amsterdam began in 1999 with a government plan to celebrate the millennium in the Netherlands with a series of grand cultural projects. It was recognized that the museum building had been neglected, and urgently needed modernizing. Following a European search, the Spanish architects of Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos won the competition in 2001. The renovation would also focus on new spaces for the entrance hall and a pavilion for Asian art. The main art gallery and the library were selected as places to receive an especially thorough renovation and restauration. The Cuypers Library Hall is the one of the very few 19th-century library spaces that have survived in the Netherlands. The library is very close to the architect's original conception of the space and how it would be used. The reception is an impressive 20-meter high rectangular book hall, elaborately decorated and composed as a Gesamtkunstwerk. This article will draw attention to the design and the historic functions of the library hall.
- Subjects
RIJKSMUSEUM (Netherlands); PRESERVATION of architecture; CUYPERS, Pierre
- Publication
Art Libraries Journal, 2018, Vol 43, Issue 1, p2
- ISSN
0307-4722
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/alj.2017.41