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Van Gogh Museum Essentials: A 2-Hour Chronological Route Through Vincent’s Life (2026)

TL;DR. The Van Gogh Museum holds the world’s largest Van Gogh collection — around 200 paintings, 500 drawings, 800 letters, donated by Vincent’s nephew Vincent Willem in 1962 to form the museum that opened in 1973. The route runs bottom-up because the floors are organised chronologically: Floor 0 Potato Eaters and Brabant; Floor 1 Paris and Arles — Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat, The Bedroom, Sunflowers, The Yellow House; Floor 2 Saint-Rémy and Auvers — Almond Blossom, Wheatfield with Crows, Roses; Floor 3 Letters and influences. Standard ticket €25 in 2026, mandatory advance timed entry online for every visitor (Museumkaart included), and — contrary to most older guides — photography is permitted in the permanent collection without flash. The museum is 250 metres east of the Rijksmuseum on Museumplein, the natural Amsterdam art duo. Friday late opening to 21:00; no Saturday late.

At a glance

• Address. Van Gogh Museum, Museumplein 6, 1071 DJ Amsterdam. Entrance through the 2015 glass pavilion between the Rietveld and Kurokawa buildings — the original 1973 Rietveld entrance is closed to the public.
• Hours. Daily 09:00–18:00. Friday late to 21:00 (last admission 20:00). Open every day of the week year-round; closed only 1 January, 27 April (King’s Day) and 25 December. [Verify the current month’s calendar on vangoghmuseum.nl before booking around Dutch public holidays.]
• Tickets. €25 adult, €15 student (with international student card or proof of enrolment), under-18 free. No senior discount. Audio guide €3.50. Compare Van Gogh Museum entry options on Tiqets when the official site is sold out.
• Mandatory advance booking. Every ticket is timed-entry, online-only. No walk-up sales at the door. Slots release 60 days ahead; weekend peak (Apr–Sep) sells out 7–14 days out. Museumkaart, Stadspas and ICOM holders still need to book a free €0 slot.
• Museumkaart €75. Covers Van Gogh, Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk, Mauritshuis, Kröller-Müller and around 450 other Dutch museums for one year. Break-even at three museums.
• I amsterdam City Card warning. The card does not cover the Van Gogh Museum or the Anne Frank House — a policy change effective 1 June 2022 that several legacy and AI-generated guides have not updated. Book the museum separately.
• Tram. 2 or 12 to Rijksmuseum stop, then a 3-minute walk south across Museumplein. 5 to Hobbemastraat is the alternative.
• Photography. Permitted in the permanent collection — no flash, no tripod, no selfie stick. Forbidden in most temporary exhibitions and on individually labelled loan works.
• Bag check + accessibility. Free cloakroom and lockers in the entrance pavilion’s lower level; suitcases refused at security. Step-free throughout via lifts; free wheelchair loan; service dogs welcome.

What 2 hours actually buys you at the Van Gogh Museum

Most museums are surveys of a tradition. The Van Gogh Museum is a single 37-year life, room by room, in chronological order, told by the family who lived it. The collection’s spine is the inventory Theo van Gogh held when Vincent died at Auvers-sur-Oise on 29 July 1890 — preserved and catalogued through forty years by Theo’s widow Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, then donated by their son Vincent Willem van Gogh to the newly-formed Vincent van Gogh Foundation in 1962. The museum opened in 1973 in Gerrit Rietveld’s purpose-built modernist box, the largest single-artist museum project in Dutch history.

Two hours buys you twelve works — about six percent of the painted holdings, sequenced as the life unfolded. The Musée d’Orsay essentials holds five of the most-famous individual Van Goghs (the third Bedroom, Starry Night Over the Rhône, the swirling Self-Portrait, Church at Auvers) but only around twenty-four works total; MoMA holds the Starry Night (1889) that the Amsterdam collection does not. The Amsterdam museum holds everything else, and the through-line. The differentiation against Paris and New York is not individual masterpiece weight but biographical depth.

The buildings — Rietveld, Kurokawa, van Heeswijk

Three buildings, three architects, three decades. Gerrit Rietveld (1973) — the square four-floor concrete-and-steel main block on the southwest corner of Museumplein, completed three years after the De Stijl furniture designer’s death from his office’s drawings, austere and skylit. Kisho Kurokawa (1999) — the elliptical titanium-and-glass exhibition wing east of the Rietveld block, designed by the Japanese Metabolist architect as a dedicated venue for temporary exhibitions over three floors of around 1,000 square metres. Hans van Heeswijk (2015) — the cold-bent glass entrance pavilion that connects the Rietveld and Kurokawa buildings, completed from drawings Kurokawa had prepared before his 2007 death, with 650 square metres of structural glass on a 65-tonne steel frame. This is where you enter; the original Rietveld entrance has been closed to visitors since 2015. A legacy-guide quibble: tour leaders often call the entrance hall “the Kurokawa entrance” because it abuts the Kurokawa wing — the 2015 pavilion is van Heeswijk’s, executed faithfully to Kurokawa’s late sketches.

Where to enter, where to start

The entrance is the 2015 glass pavilion on Museumplein, visible as you approach from the Rijksmuseum side. The line splits inside between QR-ticket scan and information desk; security is airport-style and quick. Free lockers and cloakroom on the lower level; full-size luggage refused. From security, take the underground passage left into the Rietveld main building and ride the lift to Floor 0. The opinionated move runs against the standard museum reflex: start at the bottom and walk up, not for crowd timing (the floors fill evenly through the morning) but because the chronological narrative arc matters more than crowd density. There is no single bottlenecked masterpiece room here. Walking the 1881–1890 sequence in order — Brabant peasants → Paris pointillism → Arles yellows → Saint-Rémy whirlpools → Auvers wheatfields — is the entire experience. Book a 90-minute Van Gogh Museum guided tour on GetYourGuide for a museum-licensed guide who walks the same chronological route.

The 2-hour chronological route — Floor 0 to Floor 3

Times below are looking-time at each stop; budget another fifteen minutes for the lift, the lower-level passage, and inter-floor walking.

Floor 0 — The Brabant years, 1881–1885 (20 minutes)

The opening rooms hold the unknown rural Van Gogh — a former art dealer’s clerk turned failed evangelist turned, at 27, self-taught painter living on Theo’s monthly stipend in his parents’ parsonage at Nuenen. Dark palette, weight in the hands, faces lit from below by oil lamp.

1. The Potato Eaters (April 1885). The painting Van Gogh wanted to be judged on when he sent it to Theo in Paris. Five faces around a single lamp, eating the potatoes they have dug with the hands that dug them. The execution is uneven — the table perspective buckles, face proportions vary — and Van Gogh knew. The picture is the manifesto: peasants painted as they were, with the same gravity earlier centuries reserved for kings. Ten minutes.

2. The Brabant still lifes and weaver paintings (1884–85). Still Life with Bible (October 1885), painted after Van Gogh’s father’s death — Vincent’s large open Bible facing Zola’s small yellow La joie de vivre. The Weavers at the Loom series (1884), dark figures embedded in their wooden machinery. Ten minutes.

Floor 1 — Paris, Antwerp and Arles, 1886–1888 (40 minutes)

Up the central stair. The colour saturation jumps by an octave — the moment in March 1886 when Van Gogh moved into Theo’s apartment on rue Lepic in Montmartre and remade his palette inside eighteen months.

3. Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat (March–April 1887). One of around thirty self-portraits from the Paris years, using a Pointillist hatch of complementary blue and orange across the hat and lapels. Stand fifteen feet back and the dots resolve. Five minutes.

4. The Bedroom (October 1888) — Arles, first version. The small upstairs bedroom in the Yellow House on Place Lamartine, painted while Van Gogh waited for Gauguin to arrive from Pont-Aven. Van Gogh’s letter to Theo described the intent: the colour was to express absolute rest. The flat planes and unmodulated colour fields are not technical limitations but a programme. Eight minutes. The Amsterdam canvas is the first version; the Musée d’Orsay essentials holds the third (September 1889, smaller, a gift for Vincent’s mother and sister), and the Art Institute of Chicago holds the second.

5. Sunflowers (January 1889) — F458, the fourth-version repetition. Yellow-background, signed Vincent on the vase, painted in January 1889 as Van Gogh’s own copy of the famous fourth version (now at the National Gallery in London) — the version Gauguin had admired the previous autumn. The Amsterdam museum holds two Sunflowers: this F458 repetition and the August 1888 third version (F456, blue-green background). Through May 2026, F458 anchors the Yellow: Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour exhibition in the Kurokawa Wing — verify the gallery on the day. Eight minutes.

6. The Yellow House (September 1888). The street view of 2 Place Lamartine — Van Gogh’s rented studio-house, painted the month before Gauguin’s arrival. The cobalt sky, the gas lamp on the corner, the train crossing the iron viaduct. The building was destroyed in a 1944 Allied bombing raid; this painting is the principal surviving image of it. Five minutes.

7. The Harvest at La Crau (June 1888). The wheat-field landscape Van Gogh considered his most successful Arles work — seventeen colours, the perspective resolved by the cart track running back to the blue Alpilles, the haystacks built like architecture. Six minutes. Reserve a private Amsterdam art-history half-day tour on Viator for a return visit pairing the Van Gogh Museum with the Stedelijk next door.

Floor 2 — Saint-Rémy and Auvers, 1889–1890 (40 minutes)

Up again. The final eighteen months. Van Gogh checked himself voluntarily into the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in May 1889 after the breakdown that followed the December 1888 ear-cutting incident; he painted around 150 canvases inside the asylum before moving north to Auvers-sur-Oise, where Dr Gachet treated him through his final ten weeks.

8. Almond Blossom (February 1890) — the breakthrough. Painted in Saint-Rémy as a gift for Theo and Jo’s newborn son — Vincent Willem, the same nephew who would later donate the collection. A flowering almond branch against pale blue, owing as much to the Japanese print as to anything Western. The light is the cleanest in the room. Eight minutes.

9. Wheatfield with Crows (July 1890) — Auvers, often called the last. The double-square panoramic field painted in the final weeks, the path forking three ways under a storm sky as a flock of crows lifts from the wheat. Widely but inaccurately reported as his last painting — Tree Roots (also on this floor) and Daubigny’s Garden are equally credible candidates. What is certain is that Wheatfield with Crows is among the last two or three he completed. Ten minutes.

10. Wheatfield with a Reaper (September 1889) — Saint-Rémy. Asylum wall in the foreground, a single figure cutting wheat under the southern sun. Van Gogh wrote to Theo plainly: the reaper is humanity, the harvest is death, the painting an image of death “smiling in a great sun-flooded field”. The yellow saturation is the closest the Saint-Rémy year comes to the Arles palette. Six minutes.

11. Roses (May 1890) — the Saint-Rémy hospital still life. Painted in the final week at Saint-Rémy, days before Van Gogh boarded the night train to Paris and Auvers. The white roses on green-grey were originally pink; the red lake pigment has faded — the wall label updates as the pigment research progresses. Six minutes. Browse Amsterdam art walking tours on GetYourGuide for a Museum Quarter circuit adding the Stedelijk and Concertgebouw.

Floor 3 — Letters and Influences (20 minutes)

The narrative arc closes with the documentary spine. The Letters gallery rotates original sheets from the museum’s archive of around 820 surviving letters — primarily Vincent to Theo, digitised in full by the Vincent van Gogh Foundation at vangoghletters.org in Dutch, French and English. The adjacent Influences gallery holds works the museum has acquired or accepted on long-term loan — small paintings by Gauguin, Émile Bernard, Louis Anquetin, Pissarro, Adolphe Monticelli, plus Japanese prints from Vincent’s own collection. Twenty minutes total.

Floor placements reflect the standing chronological hang at the time of writing. Individual works rotate through conservation each year — if a specific painting is decisive for your visit, check vangoghmuseum.nl the morning of arrival.

The mandatory timed-entry rule — how to book

The single most-missed practical fact about the museum, and the cause of more turned-away first-time visitors than any other issue at the door.

The rule. Every visitor — adult, child, student, Museumkaart, Stadspas or ICOM holder — must book a timed-entry slot online in advance. There are no walk-up sales at the entrance pavilion. The policy held through the post-COVID reopening and is in force for 2026. Slots release 60 days ahead on vangoghmuseum.nl. April–September weekend slots sell out 7–14 days in advance; July–August Saturday mornings sell out 3–4 weeks ahead. Weekday early-morning slots (09:00–10:30) Tue–Wed outside Dutch school holidays remain reliably available 48 hours out. Friday late-opening slots (17:00–20:00) are the under-booked window most legacy guides miss.

Museumkaart and concession-card holders. Book a free €0 slot through the same online flow — select the Museumkaart option, the price drops to zero, the reservation confirms by email. Present the physical card and booking QR at the door. Failing to book the slot is the most common reason concession-card holders are refused entry.

The I amsterdam City Card non-issue. The card does not cover the Van Gogh Museum, the Anne Frank House or the Royal Palace — a policy change effective 1 June 2022. It remains useful for the Stedelijk, Hermitage Amsterdam, Rembrandt House, transit and canal cruises, but not for this museum. Older guides and AI travel answers that list Van Gogh as covered are out of date. Compare I amsterdam Card options on Tiqets for the museums it does cover.

Tiqets / GetYourGuide fast-track — €28–32. A €3–7 markup over the €25 official rate for a guaranteed slot within 1–7 days. Same security, same scanner. Right call when vangoghmuseum.nl is sold out. Book Van Gogh Museum skip-the-line entry on Tiqets. The official site is canonical: vangoghmuseum.nl/en/visit/tickets-and-ticket-prices.

Photography — what older guides and AI answers get wrong

The most-cited travel sources are wrong about this, including answers generated by every major large language model at the time of writing.

The actual rule, 2026. Photography is permitted in the permanent collection for personal, non-commercial use, without flash, tripod, monopod, or selfie stick. Phones are fine. Compact cameras are fine. The rule is published openly on the museum’s own House Rules page and is enforced at the level of the prohibited equipment rather than the act of photographing itself.

What is forbidden. Flash of any work anywhere, at any time. Photography in temporary exhibitions in the Kurokawa Wing — the wall label at the entrance states the rule; most loan-heavy shows prohibit on the lender’s instruction. Individually-labelled loan works in the permanent rooms (small “no photography” tags on the caption). Commercial or professional photography, which requires written authorisation in advance.

Older travel guides and AI answers frequently still report a blanket ban. That ban covered an earlier period of policy and is several iterations out of date. The Van Gogh Museum currently sits in the same photo-permitted bracket as the Musée d’Orsay (since 2015), MoMA and the Met — not in the still-restrictive bracket of the Prado or the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel. Bring your phone; don’t bring a flash. The opinionated note: the museum is better experienced with the phone in the bag. The chronological narrative arc on which the entire visit rests is a function of looking-time, not capture-time.

If you have an extra hour

The Kurokawa Wing temporary exhibition. Included in the €25 admission. 2026 runs Yellow: Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour (13 February – 17 May 2026, fifteen artists with Sunflowers F458 at the centre) and the autumn-2026 Whistler retrospective — the first James McNeill Whistler survey in the Netherlands [verify exact dates]. Allow 45–60 minutes. Reserve a private Van Gogh Museum tour on Viator for a curatorial guide who can sequence the permanent route around the current show.

The Print Room. Works on paper from the museum’s holdings — around 500 Van Gogh drawings, early Brabant sheets, Saint-Rémy reed-pen drawings, plus French and Japanese prints from his own collection. Smaller, quieter, materially closer to the artist’s hand than the painted galleries.

The museum garden and bookshop. The garden between the Rietveld and Kurokawa buildings is small, planted and less crowded than any gallery inside. The ground-floor bookshop is the best Van Gogh-specific bookshop in Europe — Foundation publications on conservation, letters and pigment science alongside the standard monograph stock.

Combining with Rijksmuseum — the Amsterdam museum duo

The Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum essentials are the Amsterdam art duo — 250 metres apart on Museumplein, the two principal national-rank collections in the Netherlands, both reopened in 2013 after the parallel multi-year renovation cycle. The Rijksmuseum holds the Dutch Golden Age — Vermeer, Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Jan Steen — across Cuypers’s 1885 cathedral-scale building. The Van Gogh Museum holds Vincent. Together they are the standard one-day Amsterdam art trip.

Standard sequence. Rijksmuseum 10:00–13:00 (start at the Night Watch in the Gallery of Honour, end at the Vermeers); lunch in De Pijp; Van Gogh Museum 14:30–17:00. Five hours of museum time, three minutes’ walking between. The colour-and-light contrast — Rembrandt’s brown chiaroscuro to Van Gogh’s yellow saturation — is the unstated curatorial point of doing them in this order. Book a combined Rijksmuseum + Van Gogh private tour on Viator. The reverse sequence works equally well.

First-time visitors with limited stamina, jet-lagged transatlantic arrivals, and anyone travelling with children under ten should split the duo across two mornings. The chronological arc above rewards a fresher viewer than the second-museum-after-lunch slot consistently delivers.

Around the Van Gogh Museum

The Museum Quarter is a 600-metre square of nineteenth-century cultural infrastructure built within fifteen years either side of the Rijksmuseum’s 1885 opening.

• Stedelijk Museum. Immediately east on Museumplein, in the 1895 Adriaan Weissman red-brick building plus the 2012 Benthem Crouwel white “bathtub” extension. The Netherlands’ principal modern-and-contemporary museum — Malevich, Mondrian, Karel Appel, the post-war Cobra group. Daily 10:00–18:00; €22.50 adult; Museumkaart and I amsterdam City Card.
• Concertgebouw. South across Museumplein, the 1888 Adolf Leonard van Gendt concert hall — among the three best-sounding rooms in Europe for symphonic repertoire. Free lunchtime concerts Wednesdays 12:30, no reservation, queue from 12:00.
• Vondelpark. Ten minutes west, the largest park in central Amsterdam. Café ‘t Blauwe Theehuis — Hendrik Baanders’ 1937 saucer-shaped pavilion in the trees.
• De Pijp and Albert Cuyp Market. Eight minutes south — the largest open-air street market in the country (Mon–Sat 09:00–17:00), plus the Heineken Experience and the highest restaurant density in the city.
• Rijksmuseum. 250 metres north — see Rijksmuseum essentials.

For a wider Amsterdam art-and-canal day, book a 75-minute canal cruise on GetYourGuide departing from the Rijksmuseum dock.

Where to eat between viewings

Le Tampon — inside the museum entrance hall. The museum’s own café, lower level of the 2015 glass pavilion. Salads, sandwiches, a small hot menu; lunch €15–25 per head. Not destination dining — the right call when the timed-entry rhythm costs you the lunch hour.

De Hoop op Welvaart — Spiegelgracht 27, 8 minutes’ walk north. A working bruin café (brown café — Amsterdam’s century-old dark-wood neighbourhood pubs) on the Spiegelgracht canal. Erwtensoep in winter, stamppot in any season, bitterballen, Heineken on tap. Mains €13–19. No reservations; arrive 12:30 or 14:00.

Hap Hmm — 1e Helmersstraat 33, 12 minutes north. The most-loved Dutch home-cooking restaurant in the Vondelpark area, open since 1935, white tablecloths, no website. Three-course menus around €20 — the gehaktbal is the order. Closed Sunday and Monday; arrive 17:30.

Avoid the immediate Museumplein restaurants on the southwest corner facing the Concertgebouw — tourist-priced (€28–35 mains for ordinary fare) when De Pijp and the Spiegelgracht are eight minutes away on foot.

Where to stay

Three neighbourhoods within fifteen minutes of the museum, at three price bands.

Museum Quarter (luxury and proximity). The streets south and west of Museumplein — Van Baerlestraat, Paulus Potterstraat, Jan Luijkenstraat — are nineteenth-century mansion blocks turned mostly to four- and five-star hotels. Conservatorium Hotel (Van Baerlestraat 27, converted Sweelinck Conservatory, 5-star, €600–€1,200), Hotel Vondel (Vondelstraat 26, 4-star, €280–€450), Hotel JL No76 (Jan Luijkenstraat 22, design 4-star). Three-minute walk. Browse Museum Quarter hotels on Booking.

Vondelpark / De Pijp (mid-range, walkable). Conscious Hotel Vondelpark (Overtoom 519, sustainability-led 4-star, €180–€260) and Hotel Bilderberg Garden (Dijsselhofplantsoen 7) west; in De Pijp, the trendier post-renovation neighbourhood with the market, the boutique stock has grown sharply. Browse Vondelpark hotels; browse De Pijp hotels.

Centraal Station area (mid-range, best for Eurostar). 15 minutes by tram (2 or 12). Sweets Hotel (one suite per former canal-bridge house, €200–€400), Hotel V Nesplein, the Pulitzer (canal-luxury 5-star). Right call for visitors arriving from London by Eurostar.

The opinionated pick: Museum Quarter for first-time art-led visitors who want to walk to the museum at 08:55 for the 09:00 slot. For a longer European art circuit, the Musée d’Orsay essentials is 3h 19m from Amsterdam Centraal by Eurostar; the Prado essentials, Uffizi essentials, Louvre in 3 hours, British Museum essentials and Met essentials complete the cornerstone set. For a Bruges day trip (3 hours direct, Memling at the Sint-Janshospitaal), book a Bruges day trip from Amsterdam on GetYourGuide.

FAQ

How much is a Van Gogh Museum ticket in 2026? Adult €25, student €15 with ID, under-18 free. No senior discount. Museumkaart, Stadspas and ICOM holders free. Every visitor must book a timed-entry slot online — no walk-up sales.

Do I need to book in advance? Yes, without exception. Slots release 60 days ahead; weekend peak (Apr–Sep) sells out 7–14 days out. Museumkaart holders still need a free €0 slot.

Can I take photos? Yes, in the permanent collection — no flash, tripod or selfie stick. The rule is the opposite of what many older guides and AI answers report. Temporary Kurokawa Wing exhibitions usually prohibit photography.

Where is The Bedroom? Floor 1, in the Arles 1888 sequence — the Amsterdam canvas is the first version (October 1888). The Art Institute of Chicago holds the second; the Musée d’Orsay essentials holds the third.

Which Sunflowers is at the Van Gogh Museum? Two — the third version (F456, August 1888, blue-green) and the fourth-version repetition (F458, January 1889, yellow, signed Vincent). The original fourth version (F454) is at the National Gallery London.

How long do you need? Two hours for the route above; three with the Kurokawa Wing exhibition; four for a serious first visit.

Can I visit the Van Gogh Museum and Rijksmuseum in one day? Yes — 250 metres apart, about five hours combined. Standard: Rijksmuseum morning, Van Gogh afternoon. Both require separate advance bookings.

Is the Museumkaart worth it for tourists? Yes for three-or-more Dutch museums. €75 for one year, around 450 museums. The I amsterdam City Card does NOT cover the Van Gogh Museum since 1 June 2022 — verify before buying.

Best time to visit? 09:00 sharp on a Tuesday or Wednesday outside Dutch school holidays. Second-best: the final two hours on a Friday late-opening evening (19:00–21:00).

What Van Gogh paintings are NOT here? Starry Night at MoMA; Starry Night Over the Rhône, Bedroom third version, Self-Portrait (1889), Church at Auvers at the Musée d’Orsay; Sunflowers fourth version at the National Gallery London; Café Terrace at Night and a large body of late work at the Kröller-Müller Museum at Otterlo, the second-largest Van Gogh collection in the world.

Editor note

Written 2026-05-12 by travel.art editorial. Last verified 2026-05-12. Refresh scheduled 2026-09-15 before the autumn Whistler retrospective opens; annual rebuild on 2027-04-15.

Sources for time-sensitive facts (2026 ticket prices, mandatory timed-entry rule, Friday late, photography policy, current Kurokawa Wing exhibitions, I amsterdam City Card non-inclusion, Sunflowers F458 display status): the museum’s own Tickets and Ticket Prices page, Address and Opening Hours, House Rules, FAQ, Sunflowers F458 collection notice, What’s On, The Building; the Van Gogh Letters digital archive; The Art Newspaper — Must-see Van Gogh exhibitions in 2026; Inexhibit — Van Heeswijk entrance building case study; I amsterdam City Card FAQ.

Verification debt. (1) Exact 2026 dates for the autumn Whistler retrospective — announced October 2025 but full dates not yet on the museum’s What’s On page [verify by August 2026]. (2) Vincent on Fridays event dates (working list: 27 Feb, 27 Mar, 29 May, 26 Jun, 25 Sep, 27 Nov 2026); verify around Dutch public holidays. (3) Audio-guide pricing (€3.50 working figure); the official app remains free on iOS and Android regardless.

If you spot a fact that needs updating, write to [email protected].

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