20 January 2022
Corporate

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen wins Rotterdam 2021 Marketing Award

The year in which Boijmans gave Rotterdam worldwide allure has been decorated with the Marketing Award Rotterdam. The award was presented at the City Hall by Mayor Aboutaleb and City Council Member Vermeij.

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13 January 2022
Boijmans Projects

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 ...

24 December 2021
Corporate

2021: A year in which Boijmans gave Rotterdam worldwide allure

The new depot of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen was opened in 2021 amidst Royal words and praise. Despite all the restrictions, the museum has been able to keep the faith, set up dozens of...

17 December 2021
Corporate

Museum Boijmans in Rotterdam appoints new curator

After ten years at the Royal Collection with the famous drawings kept in Windsor Castle, curator Rosie Razzall will join the Boijmans in January. The London art historian is making an int...

24 November 2021

Curator donates art work on retirement from Boijmans

A large drawing by artist J.A. Knip was recently acquired for the Dutch museum. Retiring senior curator Albert Elen is donating it to enrich the collection which has been under his care ...

1 November 2021
Depot

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen: inauguration of a world first

With Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, a mecca for art and collection management is opening. A building of a new order. King Willem-Alexander opens the depot, after which the public can disco...

29 October 2021

Lakeside Collection entrusted to the care of Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen

The Rotterdam-based art collector Ali Keles has found a home for his Lakeside Collection in the new depot. The collection consists of more than 80 modern and contemporary works, which wil...

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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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13 January 2022
Boijmans Projects

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 ...

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...

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1 November 2021
Depot

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen: inauguration of a world first

With Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, a mecca for art and collection management is opening. A building of a new order. King Willem-Alexander opens the depot, after which the public can disco...

19 October 2021
Depot

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...

7 October 2021
Depot

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’...

17 September 2021
Depot

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

14 September 2021
Depot

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...

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, ...

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20 January 2022
Corporate

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen wins Rotterdam 2021 Marketing Award

The year in which Boijmans gave Rotterdam worldwide allure has been decorated with the Marketing Award Rotterdam. The award was presented at the City Hall by Mayor Aboutaleb and City Coun...

24 December 2021
Corporate

2021: A year in which Boijmans gave Rotterdam worldwide allure

The new depot of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen was opened in 2021 amidst Royal words and praise. Despite all the restrictions, the museum has been able to keep the faith, set up dozens of...

17 December 2021
Corporate

Museum Boijmans in Rotterdam appoints new curator

After ten years at the Royal Collection with the famous drawings kept in Windsor Castle, curator Rosie Razzall will join the Boijmans in January. The London art historian is making an int...

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, ...