A First of its Kind Art Depot Opens in Rotterdam
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.
MVRDV's first-of-its-kind Rotterdam art depot is ready to open
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Snapshot: Markthal Rotterdam, 2014-12-16
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December 2021 Issue Architectural Record
