Research

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen considers research into its own collection and history as one of its core tasks. Exhibitions and publications often arise directly from research undertaken by in-house staff or external specialists. The museum has its own series of publications, the Boijmans Studies, which publish research results.  In the coming years, the museum will be concentrating on various subjects, including:

Current research

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen is participating in the source research in the context of the national project ‘Museum acquisitions from 1933 until now’.

With the support of the Mondriaan Foundation, research is being undertaken into the collection of fifteenth and sixteenth-century drawings. This research - by dr. Albert J. Elen, dr. Yvonne Bleyerveld and Judith Niessen - will culminate in a collection catalogue of this important aspect of Dutch drawing art. The research has been designated by the Mondriaan Foundation as a model project. It will be completed in 2011.

Dr. Albert J. Elen, senior curator prints and drawings, is preparing a collection catalogue for the collection of Italian drawings in Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.

Dr. Jeroen Giltaij is preparing a collection catalogue of seventeenth-century landscape paintings in the collection.

Thimo te Duits, curator of industrial design, is working on a catalogue about design in the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen collection.

City curator Saskia van Kampen is preparing a publication about the history of the Rotterdam city collection, which will, in 2012, celebrate its 25th anniversary. To mark the event, there will be an exhibition, and also an in-depth publication and a website about this part of the collection

In addition to such research, the museum’s academic staff also contribute to catalogues, publications and magazines.