Museum_Rotterdam Knowpia

Museum Rotterdam
	Museum Rotterdam at the Coolhaven since 2020
Former name	Historical Museum Rotterdam
Established	15 April 1905
Location	Rodezand 26; Rotterdam, Netherlands
Type	History museum
Visitors	70,000 (2018)
Director	Paul van de Laar
Website	www.museumrotterdam.nl

The Museum Rotterdam, until 2011 called the Historical Museum Rotterdam, is a museum about the history of Rotterdam located at the Coolhaven.

History edit

In 1905 the museum was opened to the public as the Museum of Antiquities located at the Schielandshuis. In 1948 it was renamed the Historical Museum Rotterdam with the explicit purpose to preserve, describe and inventory objects related to urban history.^[1]

In 2011 the museum was renamed Museum Rotterdam, with the aim to exhibit Rotterdam as a contemporary transnational city in past and present sense.^[3]^[4] In 2016 it was located in the Timmerhuis designed by Rem Koolhaas in the city center, with a second location at the Coolhaven, called Museum Rotterdam '40-'45 NU.

Due to an ongoing reorganization in 2020 the Museum Rotterdam was relocated in the location at the Coolhaven.

Collection edit

The museum has a collection ranging from household objects, such as ceramic tiles, furniture, kitchenware and tableware to textiles, clothing, hand fans, handbags, jewellery and coats of arms. Also needleworks, weaponry, tools and tobacco. And also from coins and medals, playing cards, board games to glassware, tins to books, paintings, photographs to sculptures and maquettes. All related to Rotterdam.

References edit

^ ^a ^b "Archieven van het Museum van Oudheden, sinds 1948 Historisch Museum Rotterdam," stadsarchief.rotterdam.nl, last update 13 February 2020.
^ Marcel Poters, "Museum Rotterdam gooit het roer om," Algemeen Dagblad, 1 February 2019.
^ Museum Rotterdam. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
^ Edwin Ruis. "Het nieuwe Museum Rotterdam." Historiek.net. 5 February 2016.