Up Late With Vermeer, as a Blockbuster Comes to an End

To become one of the last lucky last visitors to the landmark Vermeer exhibition, Kristian Markus of Hamburg, Germany, drove five hours on Saturday to make it to the Rijksmuseum by midnight.Markus, who works in marketing, first made a stop in Munster to pick up his mother the tickets were her Mother's Day present and then drove two more hours to Amsterdam.

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