The New Rijksmuseum Promo Trailer (2009)

Extended trailer for the documentary The New Rijksmuseum, which screened at the 2009 Vancouver International Film Festival.

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum is the epicenter of Dutch cultural life: it's where they keep the Rembrandts, the Ruysdaels and the millions of artworks, documents and objects accumulated by a very wealthy country over several centuries. And like a lot of venerable cultural institutions it's in the midst of a vast, expensive, controversial and yet-to-be completed reno.