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Working Building

In the depot, the object is central. There is no hierarchy, as there is in a museum, and the artworks are mixed together. They are given a place on the basis of the materials they are made from, not on the basis of art-historical value or significance.

The material determines which climatic conditions a work must be stored under. There are five climates in the depot, tailored to different materials: metal, organic/inorganic, black and white photography and colour photography. The fifth climate is for the conservation studios, so that the conservators do not get too cold.

All in all, this approach offers a very different and largely unfamiliar perspective on the works shown. This new organisational system will also be evident during the rehousing.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s entire collection, which is the result of 172 years of collecting, will be preserved and cared for in the depot. All the works will be housed together, creating juxtapositions and cross connections that have never existed before. The depot contains four conservation studios, where visitors will soon be able to see the staff carrying out conservation and restoration work.

The Depot is not a museum

What will visitors be seeing and experiencing? It will in any event be very different from a visit to a museum. The depot grew out of a desire to share the collection with our visitors. In a museum we can never exhibit more than a small selection, about 8%. In the depot you can discover for yourself the collection we’ve built up over 172 years and it gives you the opportunity to take a look behind the scenes of the museum.

The depot has fourteen compartments fitted with racks for all the different works. Groups of up to thirteen people can enter the compartments with a tour guide for a maximum of eleven minutes, after which the space needs forty-nine minutes for the air conditioning system to recover so that the climate remains stable. This is essential in order to keep the artworks in good condition.