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The RKD completes its reorganisation and continues to build for the future
Since June 2026, we have been working within a new organisational structure that is better aligned with our role as a knowledge centre and our forward-looking digital ambition.
Q&A on the changes at the RKD
To help explain the recent developments at the RKD, we have put together answers to some of the questions we are asked most frequently.
Special issue Oud Holland 139 (2026) 1/2
Vincent van Gogh’s dialogue with the seventeenth century is the subject of this voluminous double issue of Oud Holland.
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