For Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (art-historical) research is an important tool for documenting the collection and making it accessible to the public.
Since December 2012 the museum compiles digital catalogues of parts of the collection. The first of these is devoted to the museum’s collection of Netherlandish drawings from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
In 2007 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen embarked upon the Boijmans Studies, a series of scholarly publications about the museum's collection. This project has reinvigorated the museum's long-standing tradition of works about its own collection. They range from a catalogue of our own holdings, a restoration report to an extended essay on a particular subject.
The Boijmans Studies in our bookshop
At the museum, the curators Peter van der Coelen, Alexandra Gaba-van Dongen, Thimo te Duits, Albert Elen, Saskia van Kampen, Annemartine van Kesteren, Frija Klijn, Friso Lammertse, Noor Mertens, Mienke Simon Thomas and Francesco Stocchi undertake research.
Next to our own curators, external specialists undertake research into the objects in the collection and the museum’s history as well. The museum frequently adopts an interdisciplinary approach by creating partnerships with a variety of individuals and institutions in the Netherlands and abroad: artists, universities, conservation studios, other museums, etc.
The results of the research are made public not only in exhibitions and displays but also on the museum’s websites (ALMA, online collectie, Arttube), in lectures and through publications.
