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November 2019

• • 27 November 2019
  • Boijmans Projects

  Studio secrets of Rotterdam artists revealed

  Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Museum Rotterdam will soon unveil the studio secrets of six Rotterdam artists. From the city’s seventeenth-century Spanish-Arab fashions depicted by Hendrick Sorgh...

August 2019

• • 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 collection w...

July 2019

• • 31 July 2019
  • Boijmans Projects

  Human figures admitted to hospital

  Soon patients of and visitors to the Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC) in Rotterdam will be able to enjoy five masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s sculpture collection. L...

May 2019

• • 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 years.

• • 16 May 2019
  • Corporate

  Boijmans appoints second director: Ina Klaassen

  Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and its new Depot in Rotterdam have a new director. From the second half of May 2019, Ina Klaassenhas been appointed Director alongside Director Sjarel Ex.

February 2019

• • 7 February 2019
  • Depot

  Rotterdam’s Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen - the world’s first publicly accessible art depot - will open in 2021.

  The Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen will be a unique space for exploration, interaction and discovery. The Depot will be the first museum storage facility in the world to offer public access to the la...

• • 5 February 2019
  • Boijmans Projects

  ‘netherlands ⇄ bauhaus – pioneers of a new world’

  ‘netherlands ⇄ bauhaus’, with over 800 Bauhaus objects, opens this weekend. It is the final major exhibition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen before its renovation. On the opening day – Saturday, F...

January 2019

• • 25 January 2019
  • Corporate

  Viktor&Rolf dress for Boijmans

  Han Nefkens has bought an extraordinary dress from fashion house Viktor & Rolf at Paris Fashion Week. The patron has just announced that he is donating the work, called 'I Want a Better World', to ...

November 2018

• • 30 November 2018
  • Boijmans Projects

  Co Westerik – Everyday Wonder

  In 2019 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is paying tribute to the Rotterdam-based artist Co Westerik, who recently died at the age of 94, with a retrospective of his art and his diaries. It is the fir...

• • 21 November 2018
  • Boijmans Projects

  ‘netherlands ⇄ bauhaus - pioneers of a new world’

  Before work starts on the ambitious programme of renovating and refurbishing the museum, we are pulling out all the stops again. In February 2019, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen kicks off the Bauhau...