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If you wish to visit this exhibition, try to plan your visit well outside of the tourist season. The exhibition runs from February 10th 2023 to June 4th 2023, so my advice would be to aim for February, March, or early April at the latest.

The Rijksmuseum is situated on a square in Amsterdam alongside the Van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijk and draws a crowd for its special exhibitions and top pieces.

(Edit: Forgot to mention the Stedelijk Museum!)

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Go to the RM for the Vermeers, stay for the gigantic-piles-of-fruit-with-a-lobster-in-the-corner paintings.

And outside of the Covid crisis of course; nobody should be traveling unless absolutely necessary, and nobody should be visiting museums unless fully vaccinated (for their own safety), masked up, and there's a strict visitor limit. I'm not convinced ventilation would be good enough in a museum given they can't open windows.

To assuage some of your concerns, the museum requires an EU COVID certificate and accompanying ID for entry, capacity is reduced, and visitors must wear masks except while dining in the cafe. Your travel fears are off-topic so I'll leave it at that.

To add to that list: I’d bet good money the Rijk’s ventilation and climate control is top notch.

People are of course welcome to make their own risk assessments. And personally I'd hesitate to travel internationally (outside US) at this point given the potential for unexpected policy changes/disruption. But more generally I've certainly started traveling again and don't think people should not in general if they're comfortable doing so.

Make their own risk assessments - to some extent. EU Covid Safe ticket is required, as is wearing a mask.

My comment was in the context of parent's "nobody should be traveling unless absolutely necessary" comment. Obviously different locales have specific requirements especially to access indoor locations.

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