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- 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, hybrid bei...
- 4 May 2021
- Corporate
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 switch to Muse...

- 22 April 2021
- Corporate
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 Museumpark int...
- 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 on site a...
- 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?

- 4 March 2021
- Corporate
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 Marie-Louise ...

- 23 February 2021
- Corporate
Federico Carasso’s descendants bequeath collection to Boijmans

More than 500 prints, drawings and collages by the sculptor Federico Carasso have been bequeathed to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Boijmans thus holds the largest collection of this artist’s works...
- 3 February 2021
- Corporate
New Junior Curator for Boijmans thanks to Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Award

This month Marthe Kes will start work at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam as a junior curator of applied art and design. Her post was made possible by a Curators Grant from the Prins Bern...

- 20 January 2021
- Corporate
New Curator of Old Masters for Boijmans

Ruben Suykerbuyk becomes the new Curator of Old Masters at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Suykerbuyk succeeds Friso Lammertse who moved to the Rijksmuseum in March 2020.
- 14 January 2021
- Corporate
Gift: Surrealism Library for Boijmans

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is to receive a unique and impressive library of Surrealist works. It represents an important addition to the museum’s world-famous Surrealism collection.

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