Rotterdam's finest art museum holds a collection that spans from Hieronymus Bosch and Bruegel through Rembrandt and Van Gogh to Dalí and modern Italian design. The applied arts wing -- furniture, glasswork, and ceramics -- is often overlooked but excellent. The mirrored Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen next door, opened in 2021, is the world's first publicly accessible art storage facility.
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Rotterdam's major art museum, from Bosch to modern design
| Address | Museumpark 18-20 |
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A story
The Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, opened next door in 2021, is the world's first publicly accessible art storage facility — a mirrored bowl-shaped building where visitors can walk through the storage racks and see 150,000 works that never go on public display. About 87% of the world's museum collections are permanently in storage; the Depot was built to show what happens to art when it's not on the wall.