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It spent a decade in the dark, a decade under dust sheets.

But today the light spills back and the covers come off and the last bits of building rubbish

are being swept away and the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam, one of the world's great culture

palaces, re-presents itself, remodelled, reorganised, regenerated.

This is the home of works by Rembrandt and Van Gogh and Goya and Vermeer of a million strong collection of art objects.

The world's presses here, we're here, not just to see the reincarnation of a major cultural institution,

but because this might be the last event of this kind in a generation.

We've lived through a golden age of museum development in Europe, and that age

may be over. This year here in Holland, the culture budget took a slash of 438 million euros.

There have been closures, mergers, marches under the banner, the Netherlands is shouting for art.

In this special programme from Amsterdam, we're going to ask,

what happens when a country famed for its art makes such a drastic reduction in state funding for culture?

And what lessons we might draw from that in Britain?

The novelist Philip Hensher and the arts journalist Charlotte Higgins will take on two works new to the museum,

one a Dutch master, the other a new work by the Turner Prize winner Richard Wright.

And we'll also gather around the most celebrated work here, Rembrandt's The Night Watch.

First, though, let's talk to the men in charge, to Taco Dibbitt's head of collections here,

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