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The Rijksmuseum's latest acquisition-a nearly 200-year-old condom made from sheep intestine-has prompted outrage from a ...
A conservative Christian group staged two days of small protests outside Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum over a sexual joke printed ...
Christian campaigners have launched a petition against the display of a 19th-century prophylactic depicting a semi-naked nun ...
A medieval sword has gone on display at a museum in the Netherlands after its chance discovery during a dredging operation on ...
The Netherlands' Rijksmuseum says a condom believed to be made around 1830 from a sheep's appendix, "depicts both the playful and the serious side of sexual health." ...
You can’t see on the outside what’s wrong — trying to portray something invisible was an interesting field of tension for me as an artist.”  Théodore Géricault’s ‘Portrait of a Kleptomaniac’ ...
The decorated contraceptive unveiled at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is thought to be a brothel souvenir and was likely made from a sheep’s appendix in 1830.
Wim Pijbes, the Rijksmuseum's young director, sees his task as creating 'new experiences, new concepts, new thinking'. He says: 'A museum today is where you can go see some art, meet some nice people, ...
The Rijksmuseum’s show is an altogether different, almost hallucinogenic experience. We depart overwhelmed, having seemingly overdosed on Vermeer — “Vermeered,” you could say.
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam announced on Tuesday that among the treasured works to be featured in its expansive exhibition on Johannes Vermeer next year would be a painting, “Girl With a Flute ...