Location in the province Groningen in the Netherlands | |
Established | 1874 |
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Location | Museumeiland 1[1] Groningen, Netherlands |
Coordinates | 53°12′44″N 6°33′58″E / 53.21222°N 6.56611°E |
Type | Art museum |
Visitors | 213,000 (2017 est.)[2] |
Director | Archived 2018-05-04 at the Wayback Machine, Groninger Museum. Retrieved on 13 September 2013.</ref> |
Curator | Edgar Pelupessy, Ruud Schenk, Marlon Steensma, Anneke de Vries, Lecong Zhou |
Public transit access | Groningen |
Website | www |
The Groninger Museum (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɣroːnɪŋər myˈzeːjʏm]) is an art museum in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. The museum exhibits modern and contemporary art of local, national, and international artists.
The museum opened in 1874. The current post-modernist building consists of three main pavilions designed individually by architects Philippe Starck, Alessandro Mendini, Coop Himmelb(l)au, and was completed in 1994.
Since 2008, it has had 173,000 to 292,000 visitors per year, the highest amount of any museum in the province of Groningen.