FENIX Museum of Migration
Netherlands ·
About
The FENIX Museum of Migration is a museum dedicated to human migration, located within the former Fenix warehouse in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It was opened on 16 May 2025. The museum has two inaugural exhibitions. Firstly All Directions: Art That Moves You, featuring works drawn from the museum's permanent collection, including pieces by Francis Alÿs, Cornelia Parker and Do Ho Suh; and secondly The Family of Migrants, an exhibition inspired by Edward Steichen’s Family of Man at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, which presents 194 photographs on the subject of migration. FENIX is funded by the Droom en Daad Foundation, founded in 2016 and led by former Rijksmuseum director Wim Pijbes. The director is Anne Kremers In July 2025, the museum welcomed its 100,000th visitor, marking over 100,000 visits in its first two months. It reached the 500,000 mark within a year of its opening.
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