After all, the museum has over 500 drawings and paintings in its collection in addition to more than a thousand other artifacts. There are 100 paintings on the first floor, alone. The silver clamshell affair is a recent addition to the museum that opened in 1999 to mark Van Gogh's 200th birthday. This building continues the light, open feeling of the earlier museum, but with elegant, gentle curves instead of wide rectangular blocks. Its facade is titanium and brownish-gray stone, though it hard to tell from the photograph because rain was falling at the time.
Access is through an underground tunnel.
Paulus Potterstraat, Museum Quarter, Amsterdam.