The story of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

In the Museumpark stands the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, named after its two great donors, Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. It opened in 1849, but much of the original collection was destroyed by fire in 1864. The present building by Adriaan van der Steur opened on 6 July 1935; he wanted it to be a background for the art, with unobtrusive stairs and good light so that visitors would not tire.

The collection now numbers over 151,000 works, from the Middle Ages to today, with Rembrandt, Monet, Van Gogh and Dalí, Rubens's Achilles series and Ruisdael's A Cornfield, in the Background the Zuiderzee. Please note: the museum has been closed since mid-2019 for a renovation costing 359 million euros and is not scheduled to reopen until 2030, so you will find it shut.

Much of its collection is stored in the neighbouring Depot, which is open to the public.