STEDELIJK MUSEUM

(Dutch: City Museum), in Amsterdam, municipal museum (established 1895) that has a famous collection of 19th- and 20th-century painting and sculpture. It features notable collections of canvases by Vincent van Gogh, artists of the de Stijl movement, and European and American trends since 1950. The museum maintains fine collections of drawings, prints, applied arts, photographs, and films. Its library contains more than 15,000 volumes and 70,000 catalogs.