Case Study: Rijksmuseum achieves global digital access to 1.1 million artefacts with Dell Technologies

Home of the Dutch Masters partners with Dell Technologies to make 1.1 million artefacts accessible to all.

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam faced the challenge of making a collection of 1.1 million artefacts accessible beyond the museum’s physical limits (only ~8,000 can be exhibited at once) and preserving cultural heritage for future generations. To achieve this, the Rijksmuseum partnered with Dell Technologies, leveraging storage, virtualization and server solutions—including Dell PowerScale, Dell VxRail and Dell PowerEdge—to support a full-scale digitization and modernization effort.

Dell Technologies provided an end-to-end technology and services stack (storage, VxRail hyper‑converged appliances, PowerEdge servers, data protection appliances and channel partner IT Creation for client deployment) that enabled high‑resolution imaging and AI-driven restoration—most notably restoring lost edges of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch—and put 1.1 million artefacts online for 24/7 global access. The solution extended the museum’s reach beyond its walls, helped sustain digital revenue when in‑person visits fell (~75% in 2020), and supported continuity by delivering laptops to hundreds of remote workers.

Rijksmuseum

Rob Hendriks

IT Manager