The Rijksmuseum was founded in Amsterdam in 1800 and is one of Europe's largest museums. However, its oriental collection, compared to its famous collection of Western paintings, or some of the Chinese collections in other European museums, is not particularly strong, a fact which Ruitenbeek explains by joking. "Our Chinese collection is all taken from everyday trade, none of it was stolen from China."
位於阿姆斯特丹的荷蘭國立博物院，建館於一八○○年代，是歐洲屬一屬二的知名博物館；但東方收藏比起其赫赫有名的西畫館藏，或某些歐洲博物館的中國文物，就顯得相當薄弱了，魯克思玩笑地說：「我們的亞洲收藏都是正正當當買來的，沒有在中國搶的。」