The final day of our short break in Amsterdam and our flight didn’t leave until just before 10 p.m. Son and daughter wanted to visit the Van Gogh Museum and had bought tickets online. We’d been before and decided to let them explore without us and, instead, we went to have a look around the Stedelijk Modern Art Museum, next door. We’d been before, in February, but they were between exhibitions, so thought it was worth another look round. They’d also redesigned the exhibition space for the permanent collection since our previous visit.
There was a lot to see and in this post I’ll concentrate on some of the works from the permanent collection that caught my eye (excluding those from my post from the February visit).
Kitchen Gardens on Montmartre by Van Gogh
Double Portrait of the Artist and his Wife by Max Becker
La Montserrat by Julio Gonzalez, a sculpture that represents the fighting spirit of the Catalan people during the Spanish Civil War
Apartheid by Keith Haring
Radioactive Waste by Sigmar Polke
Some posters from the Museum’s collection of Soviet art works
There were also quite a number of Modernist photographs, many taken by photographers I hadn’t come across before, so I’ll have to follow up with some research when I have the time (so much to see, find out and do – so little time!!!). The photos don’t come out too well in my snapshots due to reflective glass, unfortunately.
Down by the Dougie 
A great museum. I liked the works by Appel and de Kooning a lot.
Neil S.
Indeed. 😉 A good collection
The museum looks really interesting, political, modern and multi dimensional. On the list it should go.