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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...

• • 7 November 2018
  • Museum

  Boijmans in Transit

  Museum in flux during forthcoming renovation works: a large part of the collection will remain accessible to the public. As is clear from the report published this week, Rotterdam’s Council for Art...

October 2018

• • 26 October 2018
  • Boijmans Projects

  Dalí, Magritte, Miró, Man Ray, and Picabia on a journey

  The famous Surrealist collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, with masterpieces of Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Francis Picabia and many others, has traveled to Italy: the exhibition ‘Dal Nul...

• • 11 October 2018
  • Boijmans Projects

  Sol Calero for Sensory Spaces 15

  The first solo exhibition in the Netherlands by Sol Calero opens at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen on 13 October. The installation that Calero has created for the museum will be the tailpiece of the...

• • 4 October 2018
  • Boijmans Projects

  Boijmans in the War. Art in the Destroyed City

  In the autumn of 2018, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen transports visitors into the history of the then Museum Boymans during and around the Second World War. Recent research provides the basis for t...

August 2018

• • 28 August 2018
  • Boijmans Projects

  The journey of The Tower of Babel: just 1 more week on display in Rotterdam

  The masterpiece of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is about to make a journey. Pieter Bruegel’s ‘The Tower of Babel’ is still on display in Rotterdam until the 3rd of September. After that, the paint...