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April 2024

• • 11 April 2024
  • Museum

  Craving for Boijmans: museum building open for five weeks from 1 June 2024!

  From 1 June 2024: a special art tour through the closed building of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Tickets on sale 1 May 2024.

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...

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...

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.

November 2018

• • 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...