Client: Stadsarchief Rotterdam

Curator: Joop de Jong

Output: Outdoor exhibition

Location: Hoek van Holland, Netherlands

The Nieuwe Waterweg is the last part of the connection between Rotterdam and the Northsea, which was put into use in 1872. The connection can rightly be called the artery of the Dutch economy. The length of this excavation of the dunes at what is now called Hoek van Holland, but at the time belonged to the municipality of ’s Gravenzande, was 4.3 km. From 1877 the passage was significantly widened and deepened and a new waterway was really created. In 2022, the 150th anniversary of the Nieuwe Waterweg will be celebrated. A number of works have been created for this occasion that have the Nieuwe Waterweg as their subject.

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