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
A First of its Kind Art Depot Opens in Rotterdam
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Mirrored public art depot with rooftop garden in Rotterdam
Stylish storage: world's first publicly accessible art depot opens
Sneak peek: The first art depot in the world accessible to public
The World's First Fully Accessible Art Depot Museum is Opening to
Rotterdam opening world's first fully accessible art depot
