Van Gogh Museum

Visitors to this museum should understand that Van Gogh’s best-known works are not in Amsterdam but in museums around the world: the Musée d’Orsay, in Paris, for instance holds one of his Starry Night paintings (the other is in New York) and Self-Portrait; the Metropolitan, in New York, Sunflowers and Wheat Field; and the Art Institute of Chicago La Berceuse. But fans of the Dutch Post-impressionist, who sold only one painting in his lifetime, will still get a lot out of this museum, which has a the world’s largest collection of works by Van Gogh, including 500 drawings, 700 letters, as well as some two hundred paintings.