Craving for Boijmans: museum building open for five weeks from 1 June 2024!
From 1 June 2024: a special art tour through the closed building of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Tickets on sale 1 May 2024.
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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen buys Vincent van Gogh’s Still Life with Potatoes
The painting was presented on 11 March 2024 at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
Under embargo: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen buys Vincent van Gogh’s Still Life with Potatoes, presentation on 11 Mar...
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is proud to announce that it has acquired Still Life with Potatoes by Vincent van Gogh. Presentation on 11 March 2024.
Beloved: Dalí, Kusama, Morisot, Rothko and many others come home to Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen
From Saturday 23 March 2024, Beloved & Beloved XL at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen brings together almost 100 highlights from the collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Rosa Barba’s Performance in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in association with IFFR: 1-4 February 2024
During the weekend of 1-4 February 2024, visual artist Rosa Barba will present two multidisciplinary performances at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen: VOICE ENGINE and Hear, There Where the Echoes Are.
Step into the life and work of Lee Miller at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen
Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen presents a special exhibition and book about the fascinating published oeuvre of photographer and Surrealist Lee Miller.
Saturday, 23 September 2023: Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen Open Day
On Saturday, 23 September 2023, Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen is opening its doors to anyone who wants to visit.
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents Art Amid the Ruins
Art in Rotterdam during the Second World War: exhibition, book and walking map.
Francesco Stocchi Bids Farewell to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Francesco Stocchi, curator of modern and contemporary art at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, is bidding farewell to the museum. He has been appointed artistic director of MAXXI, the National Museum ...
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...
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...
Craving for Boijmans: museum building open for five weeks from 1 June 2024!
From 1 June 2024: a special art tour through the closed building of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Tickets on sale 1 May 2024.
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 ...
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 on site a...
‘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?
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 Wellington in New...
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. Discover ...
Boijmans Ahoy drive-thru museum ENG
August 2020 – first time ever – three weeks long, seven days a week, ten hours a day – in the car through the vast dimly lit hall of Ahoy in search of masterpieces from the collection of Museum Boi...
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen buys Vincent van Gogh’s Still Life with Potatoes
The painting was presented on 11 March 2024 at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
Under embargo: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen buys Vincent van Gogh’s Still Life with Potatoes, presentation on 11 Mar...
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is proud to announce that it has acquired Still Life with Potatoes by Vincent van Gogh. Presentation on 11 March 2024.
Beloved: Dalí, Kusama, Morisot, Rothko and many others come home to Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen
From Saturday 23 March 2024, Beloved & Beloved XL at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen brings together almost 100 highlights from the collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Rosa Barba’s Performance in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in association with IFFR: 1-4 February 2024
During the weekend of 1-4 February 2024, visual artist Rosa Barba will present two multidisciplinary performances at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen: VOICE ENGINE and Hear, There Where the Echoes Are.
Step into the life and work of Lee Miller at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen
Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen presents a special exhibition and book about the fascinating published oeuvre of photographer and Surrealist Lee Miller.
Saturday, 23 September 2023: Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen Open Day
On Saturday, 23 September 2023, Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen is opening its doors to anyone who wants to visit.
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents Art Amid the Ruins
Art in Rotterdam during the Second World War: exhibition, book and walking map.
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...
Francesco Stocchi Bids Farewell to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Francesco Stocchi, curator of modern and contemporary art at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, is bidding farewell to the museum. He has been appointed artistic director of MAXXI, the National Museum ...
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...
Boijmans’ Van Gogh presented at TEFAF
Research into the famous Van Gogh painting, Poplars near Nuenen, is on view in the main hall at TEFAF in Maastricht. The next step is the meticulous restoration.
Depot voted audience favorite Architizer A+ Awards
The Rotterdam depot has won the public award of the Architizer A+ Awards. The prize is an addition to a run of prizes with which the successful depot design of MVRDV has already been awarded.
Director Sjarel Ex to leave Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
This autumn, director Sjarel Ex will leave the museum in Rotterdam that he has led for the past eighteen years. With the museum itself closed for renovation, the collection is more accessible than ...
Depot app wins Webby Award
The Depot app of Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen has been awarded a Webby Award - known as the Oscars of the internet world - by the professional jury of the International Academy of Digital Arts and ...
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Feyenoord unveil art from supporters’ memories
Priceless memories and football memorabilia come together in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen. Fashion label Versatile Forever has made a unique jacket, unveiled in video by Feyenoorder Justin Bijlow b...
