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December 2020

• • 8 December 2020
  • Boijmans Projects

  Six Centuries of Maritime Masterpieces

  Boijmans weighs anchor in the ‘Maritime’, where the two Rotterdam art collections come together in a new exhibition: Maritime Masterpieces, the eleventh and final Boijmans Next Door show. Discover ...

November 2020

• • 5 November 2020
  • Corporate

  Karel van Mander Prize awarded to a member of Boijmans’ team: At the forefront of art historical research

  Sandra Kisters, Head of Collections and Research at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, has won the Karel van Mander Prize at the annual Art History Day hosted by the Association of Dutch A...

September 2020

• • 24 September 2020
  • Depot

  Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen completes construction in preparation for museum’s big move

  Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, het eerste publiek toegankelijke kunstdepot ter wereld, heeft zijn technische voltooiing bereikt. Het spiegelende gebouw in het Museumpark in Rotterdam werd ontworpen ...

July 2020

• • 15 July 2020
  • Boijmans Projects

  Boijmans Ahoy drive-thru museum ENG

  August 2020 – first time ever – three weeks long, seven days a week, ten hours a day – in the car through the vast dimly lit hall of Ahoy in search of masterpieces from the collection of Museum Boi...

June 2020

• • 15 June 2020
  • Depot

  Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen: Accessible for three days

  Construction of the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen - the world’s first publicly accessible art depot - is almost complete. From September 25-27 the Depot will open its doors to the public for the fir...

May 2020

• • 19 May 2020
  • Boijmans Projects

  Surrealist masterpieces in a surreal time

  From 1 June, forty masterpieces from Boijmans' surrealist art collection will be exhibited in the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen before going on a world tour. An exceptional collaboration that, in this...

March 2020

• • 2 March 2020
  • Boijmans Projects

  Surrealists to New Zealand

  From the end of 2020, the works of more than forty Surrealist artists from the collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam will be exhibited on the other side of the world. The exhibit...

February 2020

• • 21 February 2020
  • Museum

  Mecanoo’s Vision for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

  On Thursday 4 June, Francine Houben of the architecture firm Mecanoo presented her vision for the renovation of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen to the members of the Rotterdam’s city council. Earlier...

January 2020

• • 27 January 2020
  • Boijmans Projects

  Van Eyck painting on loan for first time

  Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is lending its fifteenth-century crown jewel by Jan Van Eyck to another museum for the first time. From 1 February, the painting The Three Marys at the Grave, the only...

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...