Museumpark | |
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Type | Urban park |
Location | Rotterdam Centrum |
Created | 1927 |
Museumpark is an urban park in Rotterdam, Netherlands, located between the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Westersingel, Westzeedijk and the complex of the Erasmus MC, a medical centre affiliated with the Erasmus University.
The park lies on the former land of the Hoboken family, who lived in the building that is since 1987 the Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam. The park was laid out in 1927 to the design of the architect Witteveen. On the south side of the pond in the park a monument for Gerrit Jongh, director of municipal works in Rotterdam. There are several artworks in the park, so it also serves as a sculpture garden.
There are a number of museums located in the vicinity of the park, hence the name:
Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 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 Marriage Feast At Cana is a painting that was formerly attributed to Hieronymus Bosch. The painting resides at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Several copies exist of this picture. The copy in Boijmans had been considered the original. Dendrochronological analysis has proven conclusively that it cannot have been painted earlier than 1550.
Saint Christopher Carrying the Christ Child is an oil on panel painting by Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, dating to c. 1490-1500. It is held at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
Daniël George van Beuningen was a Dutch businessman who became iconic in the city of Rotterdam.
The Kunsthal is an art space in Rotterdam. It opened in 1992.
The Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam is a natural history museum located in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Gijs Bakker is a Dutch jewellery and industrial-designer, educated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and the Konstfackskolan in Stockholm, Sweden.
The Chabot Museum is a museum dedicated to the Dutch painter and sculptor Hendrik Chabot in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The museum is housed in a monumental villa in the Museumpark, near the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and the Netherlands Architecture Institute.
The Scheepvaartkwartier or Nieuwe Werk is a neighborhood located on the banks of the Nieuwe Maas river in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The Scheepvaartkwartier is among the top 20 wealthiest neighborhoods in the Netherlands. The northern boundary of the neighborhood is the Westzeedijk, to the east lies the Zalmhaven and Zalmstraat, to the south are the Willemskade, Westerkade, and Parkkade, and to the west is the Parkhaven. The Veerhaven and the nearby monumental buildings around the Parklaan, dating back to around 1900, form the heart of the Scheepvaartkwartier. The Caland Monument, dedicated to engineer Pieter Caland, is located on the Veerkade. The white, grand buildings on the Westerkade, dating back to around 1865, are among the most beautiful in the neighborhood.
Charles Avery is a Scottish artist from Oban. He currently lives and works in London. Since 2004 he has devoted his practice to the perpetual description of an imaginary island. Through drawings, sculptures and texts. Avery describes the topology, cosmology and inhabitants of this fictional territory, from the market of the main town Onomatopoeia to the Eternal Forest where an unknown beast called the Noumenon is held to reside. The project can be read as a meditation on some of the central themes of philosophy of art-making, and on the colonization and ownership of the world of ideas.
The following is a timeline of the history of the municipality of Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Peanut-Butter Platform is an artwork by Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers. It consists of a floor covered with peanut butter and nothing else.
Saint Teresa of Ávila's Vision of the Holy Spirit is a 1612-1614 painting by Peter Paul Rubens. It is now in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
Jan de Rooden was a Dutch ceramist and sculptor, who worked in Nijmegen, Paris, and Amsterdam.
Dora Dolz de Herman was a Spanish-Dutch artist, best known for her outdoor ceramic works in the form of chairs and sofas.
Daniël (Daan) van Golden was a Dutch artist, who has been active as a painter, photographer, collagist, installation artist, wall painter and graphic artist. He is known for his meticulous paintings of motives and details of everyday life and every day images.
Helena van der Kraan-Maazel born Helena Jirina Mazl was a Czechoslovakian-born Dutch photographer and partner in the artist duo Axel en Helena van der Kraan.
The Rotterdam Design Award was an annual and later biennial design award in the Netherlands from 1993 to 2013. In the first five editions the work of the nominees were exhibited in the Kunsthal, and afterwards in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. The winners were selected by an international jury during this exhibition, and were announced at the end of the exhibition. The winners received an amount of € 20,000, which could be spent freely.
Nieuwe Instituut is a cultural centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It focuses on architecture, design, and digital culture. NI is in a building designed by Jo Coenen at Museumpark 25 in the centre of Rotterdam, adjacent to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. The building contains a shop, exhibition space, study centre, and archive, as well as the Sonneveld House, a pond, and a small park.
Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen is an art depot of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. It is the first publicly accessible art depot in the world.
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