Rotterdam - Boymans Van Beuningen Museum

Situated 1km/.75mile south of the Central Station, a building erected in 1935 houses the world- famed Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, with a magnificent collection of pictures, sculpture, applied and decorative art (including Persian, Spanish, Italian and Dutch majolica, porcelain, glass, silver, pewter, lace and furniture), drawings and prints. The museum can also be reached from the Westblaak.

This is one of the great museums of the Netherlands, with its collections - originally assembled by F. J. O. Boymans (d. 1847) and since then much enlarged - displayed in light modern rooms. The painters of the 14th- 16th centuries are particularly well represented, with works by Hubert and Jan van Eyck, Geertgen tot St Jans, the Master of Aix, the Master of the Virgo inter Virgines, Hieronymus Bosch, Hans Memling, Quentin Matsys, Lucas van Leyden, Jan van Scorel and Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The 17th century is represented by Pieter Saenredam, Frans Hals, Rembrandt (including a portrait of his son Titus), Carel Fabritius, Jan Steen and Rubens (26 works); also landscapes by Hercules Seghers, Philips Koninck, Jacob van Ruisdael and Hobbema. Among Italian painters of the 15th-18th centuries are Vincenzo Foppa, Giambattista Moroni, Titian ("Boy with Dogs"), Tintoretto, Veronese, Guardi and Tiepolo ("Golgotha"). French painters of the 18th century include Watteau, Chardin, Boucher, Nicolas Lancret, J. Pater and Hubert Robert; of the 19th century Daudier, Boudin, Monet, Pissarro, Signac and Gauguin. There are also a number of pictures by Van Gogh.

Among contemporary painters represented are Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Ensor, Tytgat, Permeke, Rik Wouters and Kees van Dongen. The D. G. van Beuningen collection of 104 pictures and 27 sculptures, acquired in 1958, includes works by Hubert and Jan van Eyck ("The Three Marys at Christ's Tomb") and Pieter Bruegel the Elder ("Tower of Babel").