The long-running dispute over who pays to repair the Van Gogh Museum is over. After more than fifty years of intensive use, the Amsterdam building no longer meets modern standards for security, climate control and sustainability, and the museum had warned that without intervention it could eventually be forced to close. A mediation process between the museum and the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has now produced a settlement agreement covering the funding of the renovation. The plan, known as Masterplan 2028, carries a price tag of 104 million euros: 76 million for maintenance and replacement works, 23 million for sustainability upgrades and 5 million for improvements aimed at visitors. Work is scheduled to begin in autumn 2028 and to last around three years. The museum says most of it will take place behind the scenes, with no major changes to the building's appearance, and that it will remain partially open throughout, with the permanent collection staying accessible. At the heart of the row was an annual shortfall. The museum argued it needed a state contribution of more than 11 million euros a year to finance the works and build a reserve for future major maintenance, invoking the 1962 agreement under which the Dutch state took on the collection assembled by Vincent van Gogh's nephew. The ministry had held its support at 8.5 million euros a year. General director Emilie Gordenker said the institution was relieved and grateful to move forward with a settlement she described as being in the spirit of that founding agreement — and with the museum's future, in the ministry's phrase, now secured.