After a seven-month renovation, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has reopened with "Van Gogh at Work," an exhibition that reveals the artist's process by displaying his own paints, tools, and palettes alongside 145 paintings and drawings.

A self-portrait showing Vincent Van Gogh with a canvas, holding brushes and a palette, is shown with paints and a palette that the artist actually used, on loan from the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.

Van Gogh's last doctor before his 1890 suicide, Dr. Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, preserved the artist's tools for posterirty.

By age 37, when he died, Van Gogh had gained very little recognition, although he was becoming more noticed as an artist.

The artist's eye is revealed too with the display of two of his well-known "Sunflowers," sandwiching his portrait called "La Berceuse." In a letter, Van Gogh had specified such a display of the three works together.

Also on view are copies that Van Gogh did of originals by other artists, layered with his own style. For instance, a largescale, color copy of a Japanese print, that resembles the original, shows Van Gogh's signature, thick brushwork.

Two other major museums in Amsterdam have now reopened after lengthy closings. Modernist art is again on view at The Stedelijk, or city museum, after an expansion. And The Rijksmuseum, which showcases such national treasures as Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer and Jan Steen, reopened in April after a major, 10-year renovation.

The Van Gogh Museum installed a new Internet reservation system to help ease the long lines, among other upgrades to its galleries.