The Netherlands' Queen Beatrix has officially opened the newly-restored Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam following its decade-long renovation costing £320m.
A 10,000-strong crowd gathered for the spectacle, which featured brass bands and a colourful daytime fireworks display.
Making one of her final official public appearances before her abdication, the 74-year-old Dutch monarch turned a golden key to open the renovated national museum of art and culture.
More than 75,000 tickets were reportedly sold, with staff expecting as many as 30,000 visitors to the museum on Saturday.
The attraction is home to Rembrandt van Rijn's 'The Night Watch' and other Dutch masterpieces.
The famous Rembrandt, showing Amsterdam's Civic Guard setting off on a march, is the only painting in the collection to have been returned to its original place.
"It really belongs there, at that spot. It has beautiful colours," said 58-year-old visitor Marry Straathof.
The huge painting is approached along a Gallery of Honour featuring works such as Johannes Vermeer's 'Woman Reading a Letter' and 'The Merry Drinker' by Frans Hals.
Many of the prize pieces in the collection of 8,000 works have been re-displayed in a broader context, with related paintings, furniture, silver and ceramics arranged in close proximity to each other as part of the museum's new layout.
The museum houses the largest collection of treasures from the Netherlands' naval and cultural history.
The renovation by Spanish architectural firm Cruz y Ortiz sought to bring light into the courtyards at the centre of the 1885 brick structure, which resembles a fairytale castle.
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