From Project to Object: Building Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

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Rotterdam City Archive
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The film on which this video is based, is in the collection of the Rotterdam City Archive. This archive, founded in 1857, contains a wealth of historical material related to Rotterdam, and a few neighbouring towns. First, the City Archive was at the Mathenesserlaan, which is located practically around the corner of the newly built museum. On November 29th 1944, the allies tried to bomb the headquarters of the German occupants. The museum was spared, but surrounding buildings were heavily damaged. So was the building of the City Archive. Its content however was saved.

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Documents
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The Rotterdam City Archive contains two documents in relation to the film: 1. A letter by J.C. Ebbinge Wubben (director of Museum Boijmans from 1945 until 1978), to thank G.L. Theijssens son for his gift. In his letter, dated Februari 24th 1970, Ebbinge Wubben tells that he, in his turn, handed the six film cans he received at the beginning of the month, over to the City Archive. From the letter we also know that G.L. Theijssen was not a filmmaker, but a supervising clerk at the city’s technical department, being involved in the construction of the museum.

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A. van der Steur
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Adrianus van der Steur (1893-1953) was a well known Dutch architect coming from a family of architects. He designed several remarkable buildings in the city of Rotterdam of which Museum Boijmans and the building for the city’s Energy Company are most famous.

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Channels: Architecture
Artists: G.L. TheijssenMike Redman

Construction workers and music – you’ll have an idea about the possible implications of this combination. Surprisingly, Mike Redman lets the men who, over seventy years ago, built Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, make their own music.

This video is a short edit of a film of 53 minutes about the construction of the museum. The originally silent film was made in the between 1932 and 1935 by G.L. Theijssen. Now Mike Redman, director and composer from Rotterdam, tells the story in less than 5 minutes. Moreover, Redman gives us the music that was locked into the silent images for all these years.

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