La Boverie, Art museum in Liège, Belgium.
La Boverie is an art museum in Liège located within a green park along the Meuse River, displaying both permanent collections and rotating international exhibitions. The building houses an extensive collection of paintings, sculptures, and other artworks spanning various periods of art history.
The building was constructed in 1905 as the Palais des Beaux-Arts for the Liège International Exposition. Following comprehensive renovations, it reopened in 2016 as a contemporary art museum.
The collection was formed in 2011 by merging the Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, the Cabinet des Estampes et des Dessins and the Musée de l'Art Wallon. It includes Ingres's portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul (1804), Monet's Le Bassin du commerce, Le Havre (1874), Van Gogh's De vrouw met de muts (1883) and Picasso's Portrait of the Soler Family (1903).
The museum is reached on foot from Liège-Guillemins station, about 800 m away, via the La Belle Liégeoise footbridge over the Meuse, inaugurated on 3 May 2016. From April to October a river shuttle on the Meuse links the Grand Curtius and the city centre to that footbridge near La Boverie. Drivers can park at the Médiacité shopping complex, roughly 500 m on foot.
The Louvre lent works for three annual exhibitions from 2016 to 2018, the first being "En plein air" (5 May–15 August 2016), which drew 74,009 visitors in its run. The museum's new wing, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, added 1,000 m², bringing exhibition space to 5,000 m².
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