Tour guides for Van Gogh & Rijksmuseum

Renee, the Van Gogh offers family tours, although your young people are probably old enough for the regular "Vincent Van Gogh" tour.

https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/private-tours

And the Rijks offers small-group tours that can be booked with a private guide as well. This one, for instance:

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/guided-tours/guided-tour-highlights-of-the-rijksmuseum

Take a look?

The RIjks Museum offers private family themed tours. Info is available on their site:
https://tinyurl.com/y435hbq3

Same deal at the VG Museum:
https://tinyurl.com/y3pmqmr8

Worth noting, the Rijks states that their family tour "is specially made for families consisting of adults and children from 6 to 12, and is not suited for families consisting of only adults." It probably skews a little young for visitors aged 13 and 18.

The RIjks Museum has a fantastic app to download and we used it to tour each area and it was very thorough and enjoyable!

Unfortunately the education services of both museums are not that impressive, especially if you have used the services of museums like the Met, Art Institute or any other major North American museum. I would recommend getting a tour guide from Context Travel, which employs mostly professionally trained art historians.

I second Context Travel. We booked a tour for the Rijks. Our guide had experience as a museum curator and art history and was presently studying for her Ph.D. We've also used Context Travel in Florence. That guide had a M.A. in art history.

https://www.contexttravel.com/cities/amsterdam/tours/rijksmuseum-tour-crash-course

https://www.contexttravel.com/cities/amsterdam/tours/van-gogh-museum-tour-crash-course

When we visited the Rijks, we signed up for a guided tour when we bought the tickets. The guide asked about peoples interests and covered them amazingly well. We took the Highlights tour and learned more in the tour than we did wandering around in the Museum. It was worth the extra we paid (5EU)
You can find this information on their website under 'tickets'

Context travel sounds more like what I'm looking for, thank you!!!

Dans, thanks for the tip about the Rijksmuseum app. Going to make sure to download it and will advise my traveling companions as well.

If you have to pick just one, get the guide for the Rijks. I felt it was harder to appreciate with an uneducated eye whereas the VG is pretty self-explanatory and smaller/easy to navigate.