29 July 2021
Depot

100 days to the depot’s opening

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam will open its doors in 100 days - on November 6, 2021 - and will make the entire internationally renowned Boijmans Van Beuningen art collection, more than 151,000 works of art, publicly available.

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16 June 2021
Boijmans Projects

Icons that always astonish: Boijmans Surrealists in New Zealand

Legendary Surrealist highlights from the Rotterdam museum’s collection are being shown on the other side of the world for the first time. The distinguished Te Papa museum in Wellington p...

4 June 2021
Boijmans Projects

‘Maritime Masterpieces’: the salty sea air of harbour life across six centuries

With ‘Maritime Masterpieces’ the Maritime Museum Rotterdam is opening the coda to the Boijmans Next Door series, bringing together more than 70 treasures from the two collections. Celebra...

1 June 2021
Depot

Announcing the opening date + rehousing the collection

Over the next three months, approximately 151,000 artefacts will be transported from five external storage facilities to the new Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam and installed in...

21 May 2021
Corporate

Opening Up! Hidden treasures, anonymous warehouses

The deputy director of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum and Boijmans director Sjarel Ex will be joined by fellow international museum professionals to discuss international developments ...

19 May 2021
Corporate

Absurdist McCarthy artwork added to Boijmans collection

‘Bunkhouse’, Paul McCarthy’s cutting caricature of the American Dream, has been added to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s collection. Rotterdam now boasts a second McCarthy showpiece, alon...

19 May 2021

Surrealists from Boijmans land in New Zealand

Dalí’s Mae West Lips Sofa’, together with a further 180 Surrealist masterpieces from the Rotterdam collection, have arrived in Wellington, New Zealand. It is the kick-off of a surrealisti...

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21 February 2020
Museum

Mecanoo’s Vision for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

On Thursday 4 June, Francine Houben of the architecture firm Mecanoo presented her vision for the renovation of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen to the members of the Rotterdam’s city counci...

5 August 2019
Museum

Last artworks leave the museum

From August 5th, the museum is empty and the keys have been handed over to Rotterdam City Council. The entire collection will come together again in 2021. In the meantime, parts of the co...

26 May 2019
Museum

New Phase for Boijmans

Sunday, 26 May 2019, the entrance gate to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen was shut. The museum is embarking on a major renovation and rebuilding programme that is expected to take seven yea...

7 November 2018
Museum

Boijmans in Transit

Museum in flux during forthcoming renovation works: a large part of the collection will remain accessible to the public. As is clear from the report published this week, Rotterdam’s Counc...

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16 June 2021
Boijmans Projects

Icons that always astonish: Boijmans Surrealists in New Zealand

Legendary Surrealist highlights from the Rotterdam museum’s collection are being shown on the other side of the world for the first time. The distinguished Te Papa museum in Wellington p...

4 June 2021
Boijmans Projects

‘Maritime Masterpieces’: the salty sea air of harbour life across six centuries

With ‘Maritime Masterpieces’ the Maritime Museum Rotterdam is opening the coda to the Boijmans Next Door series, bringing together more than 70 treasures from the two collections. Celebra...

15 April 2021
Boijmans Projects

College students from Zadkine create exhibition with Boijmans

Zadkine and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen are joining forces once again. Together with artist Nilton Moreira da Silva, college students have created an exhibition. The outcome can be seen...

12 April 2021
Boijmans Projects

‘The Breakdown Economy’: destroying things in the battle for a better life.

Bringing the maelstrom of plastic pollution to a halt requires us to think outside the box: How do you eventually break down what you are producing right now?

7 January 2021
Boijmans Projects

Boijmans Collection on Show in South Korea

Works by Dalí, Magritte, Man Ray and other Surrealists from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s collection are on show in South Korea. They travelled to Seoul from Rotterdam by way of Welling...

8 December 2020
Boijmans Projects

Six Centuries of Maritime Masterpieces

Boijmans weighs anchor in the ‘Maritime’, where the two Rotterdam art collections come together in a new exhibition: Maritime Masterpieces, the eleventh and final Boijmans Next Door show....

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29 July 2021
Depot

100 days to the depot’s opening

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam will open its doors in 100 days - on November 6, 2021 - and will make the entire internationally renowned Boijmans Van Beuningen art collection, ...

1 June 2021
Depot

Announcing the opening date + rehousing the collection

Over the next three months, approximately 151,000 artefacts will be transported from five external storage facilities to the new Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam and installed in...

24 September 2020
Depot

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen completes construction in preparation for museum’s big move

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, het eerste publiek toegankelijke kunstdepot ter wereld, heeft zijn technische voltooiing bereikt. Het spiegelende gebouw in het Museumpark in Rotterdam werd ...

15 June 2020
Depot

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen: Accessible for three days

Construction of the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen - the world’s first publicly accessible art depot - is almost complete. From September 25-27 the Depot will open its doors to the public f...

7 February 2019
Depot

Rotterdam’s Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen - the world’s first publicly accessible art depot - will...

The Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen will be a unique space for exploration, interaction and discovery. The Depot will be the first museum storage facility in the world to offer public access...

17 May 2017
Depot

Boijmans Van Beuningen Depot

The groundbreaking ceremony of the world’s first publicly accessible art storage facility takes place today, Friday 17 March 2017, at 3.30 p.m. A festive event, during which Museum Boijma...

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21 May 2021
Corporate

Opening Up! Hidden treasures, anonymous warehouses

The deputy director of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum and Boijmans director Sjarel Ex will be joined by fellow international museum professionals to discuss international developments ...

19 May 2021
Corporate

Absurdist McCarthy artwork added to Boijmans collection

‘Bunkhouse’, Paul McCarthy’s cutting caricature of the American Dream, has been added to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s collection. Rotterdam now boasts a second McCarthy showpiece, alon...

12 May 2021
Corporate

Boijmans acquires 16th-century book of prints filled with fantastical beings

A 16th-century book with 120 woodcut prints, Les Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel, has been added to the Boijmans collection. This fantastical work presents a catwalk of freaks: strange, ...

4 May 2021
Corporate

Sue-an van der Zijpp appointed as new Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at Boijmans

The collection of decorative arts and design at the Boijmans is to have a new custodian and exhibition creator. The former Groninger Museum curator Sue-an van der Zijpp is making the swit...

22 April 2021
Corporate

Boijmans loans 15 Chabots to the Chabot Museum

Next month will see Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam transferring 15 paintings by Henk Chabot to the adjacent Chabot Museum on a long-term loan. “Together we are making the Muse...

4 March 2021
Corporate

Boijmans acquires Beckmann

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