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Myra Workshop
MYRA Creative Community organizes cultural events and guided tours. Its headquarters is where its members are, but now MYRA has a new permanent home. Two-storey headquarters is a meeting place and a creative laboratory at the same time. Here members and friends of MYRA — actors, artists, architects, musicians, historians — gather to work on new performances and art shows and to explore the objects from the community’s vast collection
Olga Alexeyenko
Workplaces and resting areas support different scenarios. There are places to cozy up with laptops, enclosed offices for private meetings and even enough space to organize a small event. Workshop also has a space to store and work with the community’s art colle... More
News • News • 5 Nov 2021
MVRDV turns Boijmans Van Beuningen art storage into world's first depot museum
The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, which is currently undergoing renovations designed by Mecanoo, chose to transform their art depot into a visitable building. For MVRDV the key element is the interaction between the visitors and more than 151,000 works that are stored in the seven-storey building.
© Ossip van Duivenbode
The Museum Boijmans did not want the building to become a second museum, but a unique experience that reveals the world behind the storage and maintenance of 63,000 paintings, photographs, films, pre-industrial design objects, contemporary art installations, sculptures, as well as 88,000 prints and drawings.
© Ossip van Duivenbode
The architects of MVRDV aimed to create a building that wou... More