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June 2021

- 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...
- 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...

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