We spent all day at the Kunsthal, which had kindly invited the entire senior management of the RA to compare notes on our respective operations, as well as provide somewhere to discuss key priorities for next year.   They run 25 exhibitions a year on a staff of only 38, on subjects which are wider ranging than ours, including Dinosaurs, James Bond and Jean-Paul Gaultier as well as Munch, Giacometti and Henry Moore.   It’s in a building by Rem Koolhaas, opened in 1992.   The big difference is that 47% of their funding comes from the city, and less than 1% from Friends:-

I wandered back to the hotel by way of Museumpark, a big civic space intelligently laid out by OMA, connecting the Boijmans Museum to Het Neuwe Instituut and the Kunsthal:-

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I had only half an hour before the Boijmans Museum closed:  not nearly enough time to see a major European collection, austerely, but beautifully displayed in spookily empty galleries.   I liked The Last Supper by Jörg Ratgeb:-

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