The Rijksmuseum has suspended the sale of tickets for the Vermeer exhibition ‘until further notice’. The museum’s site came to a standstill due to the large run for additional maps for the exhibition.
The first 450,000 tickets were sold out in no time last month. The museum therefore decided to offer extra tickets for the exhibition.
Ticket sales for the extra tickets started around noon. A few minutes later, the website was unavailable. It is not clear when ticket sales will resume. The museum reports that it is ‘working hard’ on a solution. The website was already overloaded with a previous sale of tickets.
Never before have so many paintings by Vermeer been displayed in the same room at the same time. The Delft painter made a total of 37 works, of which 28 now hang in the Rijksmuseum. These are, for example, the Woman with Scales, the Girl with a Pearl Earring and the Milkmaid. Nine works are missing, incidentally. The exhibition is on view until June 4.
