Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

The south side of the museum in 2017
Location within Rotterdam in the Netherlands
Interactive fullscreen map
Established	3 July 1849 (1849-07-03)[1]
Location	Museumpark 18–20 Rotterdam, Netherlands
Coordinates	51°54′51.059″N 4°28′23.088″E / 51.91418306°N 4.47308000°E / 51.91418306; 4.47308000
Type	Art museum
Visitors	270,000 (2015 est.)[2]
Director	Sjarel Ex
Website	www.boijmans.nl/en/

Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Dutch pronunciation: [myˈzeːjʏm ˈbɔimɑns fɑn ˈbøːnɪŋə(n)])^[a] is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from the two most important collectors of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. It is located at the Museumpark in the district Rotterdam Centrum, close to the Kunsthal and the Natural History Museum.

The museum opened in 1849. It houses the collections of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans (1767–1847) and Daniël George van Beuningen (1877–1955). The museum has become the house of over 151,000 artworks over 170 years.^[3] In the collection, ranging from medieval to contemporary art, are works of Rembrandt, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Salvador Dalí and other famous collections that includes the masterpieces of the ‘Achilles series’ by Peter Paul Rubens and ‘A Cornfield, in the Background the Zuiderzee’ by Jacob van Ruisdael.^[4]

In 2013, the museum had 292,711 visitors and was the 14th most visited museum in the Netherlands.

The museum has been closed since 2019 due to improvement works and is scheduled to reopen in 2026.

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