“In this time of forced isolation, [Vermeer’s work] can point us at the fact that extreme beauty can be found just in our room.”
Amsterdam's famed Rijksmuseum, which was closed for much of last year, had its lowest attendance in decades in 2020. At the same time, the museum experienced a 23 percent increase in the number of its social-media followers, to 1.4 million, plus 5.5 million unique visits to its website, including 2.2 million to Rijksstudio, the virtual collection.
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