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Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Dutch pronunciation: [myˈzeːjʏm ˈboːimɑns fɑm ˈbøːnɪŋə(n)]) [a] is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from its two most important donors, Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen .
The Rotterdamse Kunststichting RKS (Rotterdam Arts Council) [1] was an independent foundation to promote art and culture in Rotterdam from 1945 to 2005. In 2005 the foundation merged into the Rotterdam Council for Art and Culture, an advisory body, while the other tasks were transferred to the Art and Culture department of the municipality of Rotterdam.
Thus director of the time Sjarel Ex began to conceive of a place where the art not shown in the main museum could still be open to the public. [7] On November 5, 2015, the Rotterdam city council approved the change to the zoning plan in the Museum Park, allowing the plans for a special art depot to be realised.
It is now in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. This painting is round and 71.5 cm (28.1 in) in diameter. This painting is round and 71.5 cm (28.1 in) in diameter. It is one of the fragments of a partially lost triptych or diptych , which also included the Allegory of Gluttony and Lust , the Ship of Fools and Death and the Miser .
Lately the museum had exhibitions featuring artists such as Chuck Close, Andy Warhol and Arne Quinze. And recently the exhibition Drawn: Rotterdam! One-And-A-Half-Metre-Society [ 4 ] about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The museum collection includes works from the 1920s from the Schortemeijer collection and 26 works from the Second World War from the private collection of Mrs. Toll-Breugem. [8] There are also works on loan, such as Chabot's most famous work Fire of Rotterdam, showing the result of the German bombings of the city in 1940.
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam The Quack Doctor is an oil-on-panel painting by the Dutch artist Gerrit Dou from 1652. It is held at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen , in Rotterdam .
The park lies on the former land of the Hoboken family, who lived in the building that is since 1987 [citation needed] the Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam. The park was laid out in 1927 to the design of the architect Witteveen. On the south side of the pond in the park a monument for Gerrit Jongh, director of municipal works in Rotterdam.