Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen logo Newsroom
Search in newsroom
Flag of Worldwide Worldwide
Search in newsroom
boijmans.nl
Latest

Spells against othering: Closing performances by Neo Muyanga at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen on 3 and 4 June 2023

On Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 June 2023, South African composer Neo Muyanga concludes his residence at Depot Boijmans van Beuningen with the performance Do they work? Spells against othering in collaboration with a Rotterdam-based choir. Muyanga's closing performance takes place twice on both days, between which there will be a conversation with ar...

Read article

What are you looking for?

Latest news

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen wins at the European Museum of the Year Awards 2023!

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen was awarded a Special Prize of Commendation at the European Museum of the Year Awards in Barcelona. Building and organization were praised for the manner in which it co...

Looking Ahead: Objects of Change

From 14 April 2023, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (MBVB) presents Looking Ahead: Objects of Change at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen. How future-proof is the museum's design collection? Does it inclu...

NWO grant for MBVB research into gifts and bequests from women!

Art historian Bram Donders, who works as a researcher at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, has received a Dutch Research Council (NWO) grant for his research project, Bequeathed, into women who have g...

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen welcomes composer Neo Muyanga

From the 1st of April 2023, the South African composer and artist Neo Muyanga will be present at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen every Saturday. For two months, the composer explores, researches and r...

Boijmans collection enriched with work by Berthe Morisot

A new collection highlight for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. The painting Peonies (Pivoines) by Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) is of undeniable importance for impressionism and the museum collection. ...

DEPOT - Reflecting Boijmans during IFFR 2023

The documentary DEPOT - Reflecting Boijmans premieres at the 2023 International Film Festival Rotterdam. Sonia Herman Dolz's film tells the story of the founding of Rotterdam's iconic working build...

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 council. Earlier...

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 collection w...

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 years.

Women strongly represented in Mexican Surrealism

Surrealism has a strong tradition in Mexico and female artists have played a crucial role in it. The travelling Boijmans surrealists can now be seen in Mexico City, in an exhibition which is furthe...

Boijmans asks relatives of Rotterdam WWII survivors

Guest curator Sandra Smets is collecting stories and tips from relatives about art and artists who lived and worked in Rotterdam during the Second World War. The study will result in a book, an his...

Boijmans collection brings explosion of light to Fries Museum

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Fries Museum are collaborating to place work of the impressionistic world elite in a new daylight. Famous faces such as Cézanne and Renoir and rediscovered treasur...

New details discovered in restoration of 400-year-old winter landscape

The restoration of Hendrick Avercamp’s ‘Scene on the Ice’ has revealed fascinating new details, including the gruesome discovery of a gallows field. Boijmans has made a short video about the restor...

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 presents th...

‘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. Celebrated works ...

Spells against othering: Closing performances by Neo Muyanga at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen on 3 and 4 June 2023

On Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 June 2023, South African composer Neo Muyanga concludes his residence at Depot Boijmans van Beuningen with the performance Do they work? Spells against othering in collab...

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen wins at the European Museum of the Year Awards 2023!

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen was awarded a Special Prize of Commendation at the European Museum of the Year Awards in Barcelona. Building and organization were praised for the manner in which it co...

Looking Ahead: Objects of Change

From 14 April 2023, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (MBVB) presents Looking Ahead: Objects of Change at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen. How future-proof is the museum's design collection? Does it inclu...

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen welcomes composer Neo Muyanga

From the 1st of April 2023, the South African composer and artist Neo Muyanga will be present at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen every Saturday. For two months, the composer explores, researches and r...

DEPOT - Reflecting Boijmans during IFFR 2023

The documentary DEPOT - Reflecting Boijmans premieres at the 2023 International Film Festival Rotterdam. Sonia Herman Dolz's film tells the story of the founding of Rotterdam's iconic working build...

Steve McQueen installation in depot during IFFR 2023

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) presents "Sunshine State," an artwork by Steve McQueen commissioned by IFFR. The work is presented in collaboration with The Droom en Daad Foundatio...

NWO grant for MBVB research into gifts and bequests from women!

Art historian Bram Donders, who works as a researcher at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, has received a Dutch Research Council (NWO) grant for his research project, Bequeathed, into women who have g...

Boijmans collection enriched with work by Berthe Morisot

A new collection highlight for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. The painting Peonies (Pivoines) by Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) is of undeniable importance for impressionism and the museum collection. ...

Boijmans Makes Biggest Ever Acquisition

State Secretary Uslu unveils a new jewel in the crown of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s collection - a painting by Joan Miró. Rotterdam-based Boijmans, whose Surrealist collection is unparalleled...

Boijmans collection on view in Antwerp for five years

Exceptional loan by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen to the reopened KMSKA in Antwerp. Top pieces by artists such as Dalí and Toorop on show for five years at our southern neighbours on the Schelde.

Six maiolica dishes from Boijmans collection returned to Gutmann-family heirs

Joint decision on returning sixteenth-century majolica dishes seeks a human dimension. The museum and the Gutmann family heirs have reached an agreement that is a first and which possibly will set ...

Bruegel’s iconic Tower of Babel travels from the Maas to the Amstel

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is loaning the world-famous painting ‘The Tower of Babel’ by Pieter Bruegel the Elder to the Hermitage Amsterdam, a gesture of solidarity with the museum on the Amstel...

News topics

img-description

Museum

img-description

Boijmans Projects

img-description

Depot

img-description

Corporate

Receive Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen news on your RSS reader.

Subscribe with RSS
Or subscribe through Atom URL manually
Search the entire Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Newsroom

Find news releases, media kits and clippings

Navigate to a media section