Groninger Museum

As a visitor to Groningen, it’s almost impossible to miss it. Anyone walking from the Main Station towards the city centre will almost certainly cross the colourful Museum Bridge. This is also the route leading straight to the entrance of the Groninger Museum, a postmodern building right in the heart of the ‘Diepenring’. This bold building was designed by the Italian architect Alessandro Mendini in collaboration with De Luchi, Starck and Coop Himmelblau. Each of the three pavilions is different, yet together they clearly form a single whole.

In Groningen, we like to do things just that little bit differently. With every exhibition, the museum challenges itself – and, by extension, its visitors – to view visual art from a different perspective. Well-known examples include the well-attended exhibitions of Russian painting and the David Bowie exhibition. With passion and daring, the museum tackles themes that are innovative yet still appeal to a wide audience. The permanent collection is also well worth a visit: historical objects that tell the story of Groningen’s history, Asian ceramics and, of course, paintings by the Groningen art group De Ploeg.

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