When visiting Amsterdam you can't miss out on visiting the Van Gogh museum. Opened in 1973 and is the home of one of the worlds greatest ever artists, Van Gough was born way back in 1853 in a Dutch town called Zundert. He had a good a education but left school abruptly in 1868 and a year later he managed to get an apprentice at the Goupil & Cie, An international art dealers which had headquarters in Paris. He moved to England in 1873 where his love for Art took a nose dive and he starts to lose interest and turns to the church and not so long after that he becomes a clergyman after being let go by his employers, through the years he gets more interest from helping others than anything else and does some work in Amsterdam helping the poor before moving to Belgium where he starts to give away his possessions so he can help the poor old mine workers who that time lived in appalling conditions, Aged 27 he decides he can still help the church wile learning to paint and in the Van Gough museum you can see that great collection of one of the greatest artists who has ever graced this earth. You can see and learn a whole lot more if you visit the van gough museum in Amsterdam.