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May 2024

- 1 May 2024
- Boijmans Projects
1 May 2024: Tickets go on sale for Craving for Boijmans!

Tickets for Craving for Boijmans go on sale at 10.00 am today, Wednesday 1 May. This joyous event offers visitors a special art tour through the museum’s monumental building, which is currently a c...

- 23 May 2023
- Depot
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...
- 8 May 2023
- Depot
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...
- 4 May 2023
- Depot
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...
- 4 May 2023
- Corporate
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...

- 31 May 2022
- Boijmans Projects
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...
- 13 May 2022
- Corporate
Director Sjarel Ex to leave Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

This autumn, director Sjarel Ex will leave the museum in Rotterdam that he has led for the past eighteen years. With the museum itself closed for renovation, the collection is more accessible than ...
- 4 May 2022
- Corporate
Depot app wins Webby Award

The Depot app of Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen has been awarded a Webby Award - known as the Oscars of the internet world - by the professional jury of the International Academy of Digital Arts and ...

- 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...
- 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...

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