Credit: Rijksmuseum/Henk Wildschut/Cover Images Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, one of the world’s most famous paintings, is on the way to being seen in all its glory again after five years of painstaking restoration.

After five years of exhaustive research, a team of eight restorers are starting a grand preservation project on Rembrandt’s 1642 masterpiece, ‘The Night Watch’ at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Eight restorers are working on the piece in a specially designed glass chamber for the operation's first stage.

The largest restoration of Rembrandt's masterpiece, The Night Watch, is under way at the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam. Following five years of research using techniques such as digital imaging and artificial intelligence,

On Tuesday, a team of eight restorers started removing the varnish from the painting following years of high-tech research.