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.