By A Mystery Man Writer
The Depot adjacent to the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam is the first of a kind: a publicly accessible museum storage facility. Opening on November 6, the Depot looks like a piece of super-scaled public sculpture: an amped-up version of Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate in Chicago’s Millennium Park, but it is in fact home to 150,000 art objects worth around $8 billion. Sjarel Ex, co-director of the Boijmans Van Beuningen museum and its Depot, refers to the new structure as “a bowl in a . . .
Designed by MVRDV, the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen makes its vast collection accessible to the public in a dynamic new space.
Mirrored public art depot with rooftop garden in Rotterdam
A First of its Kind Art Depot Opens in Rotterdam
Rotterdam Public Art Depot: a collection of 150,000 works of art
Unconventional Art Colours Rotterdam
Sneak peek: The first art depot in the world accessible to public
MVRDV's first-of-its-kind Rotterdam art depot is ready to open
MVRDV's first-of-its-kind Rotterdam art depot is ready to open
Shaping Space” Exhibition Champions Art of Modelmaking
Rotterdam Public Art Depot: a collection of 150,000 works of art
Shaping Space” Exhibition Champions Art of Modelmaking
MVRDV's first-of-its-kind mirrored art depot opens this weekend in
MVRDV's first-of-its-kind mirrored art depot opens this weekend in
Rotterdam Public Art Depot: a collection of 150,000 works of art
The World's First Fully Accessible Art Depot Museum is Opening to
MVRDV - Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen