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The Netherlands’ Mauritshuis art museum, home to some of the world’s best-known Dutch paintings, including Rembrandt’s “Anatomy Lesson,” reopened Thursday in The Hague after five years of restoration. Queen Beatrix freed a huge ribbon draped around the building to open the museum, set in a 17th-Century nobleman’s house by a lake next to the parliament quarter. The Mauritshuis displays around 300 works, mostly from the 17th-Century golden age of Dutch art. They include 13 Rembrandts and Johannes Vermeer’s wistful “Head of a Girl” and his “View of Delft.”

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