Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

The south side of the museum in 2007
Location within Rotterdam in the Netherlands
Established	3 July 1849 (1849-07-03)
Location	Museumpark 18-20 Rotterdam, Netherlands
Coordinates
Type	Art museum
Visitors	292,711 (2013) Ranked 14th nationally (2013)
Director	Sjarel Ex
Website	www.boijmans.nl/en/

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Dutch pronunciation: [myˈzeːjʏm bɔjmɑns vɑn bøːnɪŋən]) is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. It is located at the Museumpark in the district Rotterdam Centrum, close to the Kunsthal and the Natural History Museum.

The museum opened in 1849. It houses the collections of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans (1767–1847) and Daniël George van Beuningen (1877–1955). In the collection, ranging from medieval to contemporary art, are works of Rembrandt, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Salvador Dalí.

In 2013, the museum had 292,711 visitors and was the 14th most visited museum in the Netherlands.

History

The museum was established in 1849 as Museum Boymans with the collection of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans (1767–1847). Much of the museum's original collection was destroyed in a fire in 1864.

The collection of businessman Daniël George van Beuningen (1877–1955) was added in 1958, at which point the museum acquired the name Museum Boymans-van Beuningen. The spelling was changed to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in 1996.

Collection

The Glorification of the Virgin (c. 1490–95) by Geertgen tot Sint Jans

The "Little" Tower of Babel, c. 1563, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

File:Vassily Kandinsky, 1911, Reiter.jpg

Wassily Kandinsky, 1911, Reiter (Lyrishes), oil on canvas, 94 x 130 cm

The museum has a diverse collection ranging from medieval to contemporary art, with somewhat of a focus on Dutch art. Much of the collection came to the museum through the two private collections mentioned above, but many others have contributed throughout the years.

Among the best-known artists that are exhibited in the permanent exhibition of the museum are Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt, Claude Monet, Wassily Kandinsky, Vincent van Gogh, Maurizio Cattelan, Paul Cézanne, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, Mark Rothko, Edvard Munch and Willem de Kooning.

The collection also includes one of the richest assembly of works on paper (etchings, drawings, lithographs, etc.) in the world from the Middle Ages to the present times.

Selected works

• The Glorification of the Virgin (c. 1490–95) by Geertgen tot Sint Jans
• The Wayfarer (c. 1500) by Hieronymus Bosch
• Nest of Owls (c. 1510) by Hieronymus Bosch
• The "Little" Tower of Babel (c. 1563) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
• Titus at his Desk (1655) by Rembrandt
• Hut of the Douaniers with Varengeville (1882) Claude Monet
• Portrait of Armand Roulin (1888) by Vincent van Gogh
• On the Threshold of Liberty (1929) by René Magritte
• Not to be Reproduced (1937) René Magritte
• Impressions of Africa (1938) Salvador Dalí
• Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time (1939) Salvador Dalí
• The Face of War (1940) Salvador Dalí

Activities

The Education Department of the Museum organises children's activities, courses, lectures and tours.

ARTtube

ARTtube is a website with videos about art and design. ARTtube is produced by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, M HKA Antwerp, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, De Pont, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Museum Jan Cunen and Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam.

Television

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen produces, together with TV Rijnmond, a television series on art. Boijmans TV is based on an idea by Wilfried de Jong. Boijmans TV is created by a team of creative specialists in different disciplines. It is more than an art magazine; apart from the artists, the museum visitor, the attendant and the employee of technical services appear on the series. Each episode of Boijmans TV can be viewed on ArtTube after it has been broadcast.

Administration

Sjarel Ex has been the museum director since 2004.

The museum had 292,711 visitors in 2013. That year it was the most visited museum in Rotterdam and the 14th most visited museum in the Netherlands.

External links

• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website