Museum van Bommel van Dam

Be surprised at the museum van Bommel van Dam! Museum van Bommel van Dam is the museum for modern and contemporary art & design in North Limburg. Housed in a building that is itself an icon, where you can always be surprised by something new.

The building

Formerly a post office, now a museum. You can see this reflected in the facade of the building: the structure of envelopes served as the inspiration for the gold-colored facade in the design by architecture firm BiermanHenket. A real eye-catcher in the Venlo city entrance. A large part of the museum is freely accessible: only the exhibition spaces on the ground floor and 1st floor require an entrance ticket.
 

Maarten and Reina: a lifetime of collecting art

Maarten and Reina van Bommel - van Dam are the founders of the museum. With the donation of their extensive art collection, the municipality of Venlo established the museum van Bommel van Dam in 1971.

In the museum, Maarten and Reina have a place of honor on floor -1. Surrounded by art, in their own living room, they come to life as Pepper’s Ghost. In this Style Room, they tell you about their passion for art and life’s work: the museum van Bommel van Dam.

In the old museum building, Maarten and Reina only had to go through one door from their residence to reach the exhibition space in the museum. In the new museum, they have returned to the place where they loved to be the most: next to the museum depot, close to their beloved collection.