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Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen reveals the name of its restaurant

Restaurant Renilde and the Zaal Coert events space are the occupants of Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen’s uppermost floor. These names pay tribute to Renilde Hammacher, the Rotterdam museum’...

Jim de Jong chosen as chef of the depot’s rooftop restaurant

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen is adding a new hotspot to Rotterdam’s culinary map. The celebrated Rotterdam-born chef Jim de Jong will be head chef of the restaurant on the top floor

Start of Depot ticket sale

On Saturday November 6th 2021, the art-filled Depot will permanently open its doors to the public. Tickets can be purchased via: www.boijmans.nl/tickets. Visitors will have the opportuni...

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, ...

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...

‘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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

‘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...

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...

‘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 Welling...

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....

King Willem-Alexander to open Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen

His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands will open Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam on the afternoon of Friday, 5 November 2021. The landmark building is the first ar...

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen reveals the name of its restaurant

Restaurant Renilde and the Zaal Coert events space are the occupants of Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen’s uppermost floor. These names pay tribute to Renilde Hammacher, the Rotterdam museum’...

Jim de Jong chosen as chef of the depot’s rooftop restaurant

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen is adding a new hotspot to Rotterdam’s culinary map. The celebrated Rotterdam-born chef Jim de Jong will be head chef of the restaurant on the top floor

Start of Depot ticket sale

On Saturday November 6th 2021, the art-filled Depot will permanently open its doors to the public. Tickets can be purchased via: www.boijmans.nl/tickets. Visitors will have the opportuni...

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, ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

Boijmans acquires Beckmann

The oil painting Apollo by Max Beckmann has found a home in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen collection, thanks in part to Vereniging Rembrandt. The work was partially donated by the Mar...

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