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- 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’s star cur...

- 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 opportunity to expl...

- 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, more than ...

- 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 presents th...
- 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. Celebrated works ...
- 1 June 2021
- Depot
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 their new...

- 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 in the fie...
- 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, alongside his ...
- 19 May 2021
Surrealists from Boijmans land in New Zealand

Dalí’s Mae West Lips Sofa’, together with a further 180 Surrealist masterpieces from the Rotterdam collection, have arrived in Wellington, New Zealand. It is the kick-off of a surrealistic world to...

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