A plan is currently being considered to pay out an extra 20 million euros for the major renovation of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.
Rotterdam BIJ1 considers the cultural sector, museums and art as extremely important and endorses their great value for everyone within the city. However, this decision is very skewed. To give an already established museum like Boijmans, with millions in annual subsidies, millions more. This while homeless people are sleeping in the winter cold in the nearby Museum Park.
Rotterdam BIJ1 considers setting priorities important. If, which apparently is the casem there are millions on the shelf, we would rather see them invested in social housing, community centers, social shelter, or the victims of the national Allowance scandal.
And if it has to go to culture, we know a lot of cultural entrepreneurs and artists who, since and before the pandemic, could put a fraction of that money to much better use.