Royal destination Hermitage in Amsterdam

Old painting of the Amstel Hof - Source: Wikipedia

One of the most beautiful museums of Amsterdam surely is the Hermitage,
located on the banks of the Amstel river.

The museum is housed in the former Amstelhof, a building erected in a
typical clasical style. It was built in 1681.

Hermitage Amsterdam 

Some history

In  1682, the Amstelhof opened as a retirement home for elderly women.
From 1817, the facility housed both elderly men and women.

One of the rooms was the largest in Amsterdam. Many members of the
Dutch Royal Family and even Sir Winston Churchill visited it.

In the 1990's the facility was dertermined as inadequate to meet the
modern needs. Its residents sought to build a new sturcture elsewhere.

Afterwards the Amstelhof became a museum. It was opened by then
Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands and the President of Russia: Dmitry
Medvedev.

openings board of the Hermitage in Amsterdam

Museum

The Hermitage museum shows pieces of art from the Hermitage museum
in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, though it is an independent organisation.

Most of the time the museum houses two permanent presentations about

1/ the relations between The Netherlands and Russia

2/ the history of the old Amstelhof building.

The temporary exhibitions usually are scheduled for six months.

A visit

I visited the beautiful Hermitage museum in Amsterdam in May 2017
on a Sunday Morning.

Then, I had the chance to visit an exhibition about the 1917 Revolution
in Russia, called in Dutch: Romanovs & Revolutie, het einde van een
monarchie.

The exhibitions in the Hermitage Museums are one of the most important
reasons I would go back to Amsterdam.

Entrance of the Hermitage museum

Practical information

More information on this link

Entrance Ticket of the Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam