News archive

May 2021

• • May 21, 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...

• • May 19, 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 ...

• • May 19, 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...

• • May 12, 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...

• • May 4, 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...