A First of its Kind Art Depot Opens in Rotterdam

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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.

First publicly accessible art depot in the world completed

Rotterdam, Netherlands. 24th Sep, 2020. An exterior view of the mirrored bowl-shaped Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen as a man walk by, in Rotterdam.The Boijmans Van Beuningen depot, the world's first publicly accessible