Rotterdam is a city that does things a little differently. One of its biggest (in every sense of the word) cultural institutions, for example, isn't a museum or gallery but the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen – the world's first publicly accessible art storage facility, opened in 2021.
Inside are 154,000 artworks, which are housed in 14 storage facilities with five different climates. Guided tours showcase not only the masterpieces stored in the Depot, but the work of those tasked with their preservation. Its spaceship-like exterior is equally impressive: clad with mirrored panels that reflect the surrounding cityscape, at night moving images are projected onto its reflective shell.
You're never far from an example of ground-breaking design in the Netherlands’ second largest city. This legacy began in 1898 with the 45-metre Witte Huis (White House), Europe's first “skyscraper”. Miraculously, the magnificent
Art Nouveau facade survived the bombing raids of the Second World War that flattened large swathes of the
