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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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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