Art Depot Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Mirrored bowl-shaped art storehouse with open collection vaults and a birch-forest rooftop restaurant.
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This guide to the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam climbs to the rooftop restaurant and asks why it carries the first name of a museum curator rather than a chef. It follows Renilde Hammacher-van den Brande, who bought modern art for the museum from the nineteen sixties into the late seventies, and her taste for the Surrealists. Along the way you'll meet a birch forest craned onto a roof and a dessert built from a bitter salad leaf. Best heard on the roof terrace, among the trees.
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