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The ship paid homage to the 1959 Rotterdam by having trademark twin funnels, along with lounges and dining rooms sharing the same name as the 1959 ship. [2] MS Rotterdam and her sister ship MS Amsterdam were co-flagships of Holland America Line (HAL). Rotterdam carried an art collection on board worth over US$2 million and featured fine art and ...
The Photo Museum. The Netherlands Photo Museum (Dutch: Nederlands Fotomuseum) (NFM) is a photography museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, that was founded in 1989. [1]The museum collection consists of many historical, social and cultural images from the 20th and 21st century, from the Netherlands and elsewhere.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
In 2011 the museum was renamed Museum Rotterdam, with the aim to exhibit Rotterdam as a contemporary transnational city in past and present sense. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 2016 it was located in the Timmerhuis designed by Rem Koolhaas in the city center, with a second location at the Coolhaven, called Museum Rotterdam '40-'45 NU.
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.