Date: Sunday, July 13, 2025
Time: 10.00 am to 12.30 Hours
Participation: free, including route map
Language: English
Starting point: Maritime Museum

On Sunday morning, July 13 at 10 am, we will organize a meeting based on our new roadmap Rotterdam Art Route, from Beurs metro station to City Hall for the second time a walk along art en architecture from the Post65 era, the period between 1965 and 1990. In no other period was so much built in Rotterdam as then. The city centre got mirrored towers, brutalist office blocks and experimental residential areas such as the Cube Houses. In the field of art, a critical counter-movement arose in which artists translated the businesslike visual language of architecture into swinging abstract art, pop art with humor and more color.

Accompanied by art guide Anne-Marie Ros, this route takes you via back roads through the centre past 20 works of art and 19 buildings, most of which date from the Post65 period. Starting at the Maritime Museum designed by Wim Quist, the route follows works of art such as The River (1984) by Lon Pennock and the Maas sculpture (1982) by Auke de Vries, and buildings such as Blakeburg (1977) by Jan Hoogstad, the Cube Houses (1984) by Piet Blom and the Blaak train station (1993) by Harry Reijnders (Bureau Bouwmeester NS).

All participants will of course receive a copy of the new route map Rotterdam Art Route, from Beurs metro station to City Hall.

Sign up
There are a limited number of places available for this tour. Please register in advance via join@artinrotterdamtours.nl. After registration you will receive a confirmation email with more information. Only register if you are sure you will come. Please note: the language of instruction is this walk is english.

About our art routes
In recent years, BKOR has developed various art routes that lead past many works of art spread throughout the city. All routes are offered as a PDF in Dutch and English via this website, but a foldable map is also still available for free at Rotterdam Tourist Information on Stationsplein. The routes have also been made accessible for your mobile phone without having to download an app. Go to www.bkor.nl/routes, select the route you want to walk or cycle and see where you are on the map.

The road map Rotterdam Art Route, from Beurs metro station to City Hall was created in collaboration with the Bureau Monumenten en Cultuurgeschiedenis of the municipality of Rotterdam.