Education
University of Groningen.
University of Groningen.
His initiatives there include the museum’s complete refurbishment and reopening in April 2013 and the opening of the Philips Wing for photography and temporary exhibitions. In addition he developed and opened RIJKS®, the museum"s restaurant. With the reopening of the Rijksmuseum, Pijbes also launched Rijksstudio.
The first digital application to offer images of the museum"s collection to everyone, free of charge.
The Rijksmuseum was the first museum worldwide to ban copyrights and open the collection with a radical approach. The open-content museum dates to 2011, when the Rijksmuseum made the first of 208,000 images available for download at no cost after curators found more than 10,000 low-quality scans of one of its Vermeers online.
Pijbes lectures and writes extensively on art, artists, the role of museums in society, copyright and on the digitalization of art From August 1st Wim Pijbes will become General Director of Museum Voorlinden, near the Dutch coast between the towns of Scheveningen and Wassenaar.
Wim Pijbes holds a position of the Humanitas Professorship in the History of Art at the University of Cambridge, is Chair of the Supervisory Board of Droog Design, Member of the Supervisory Board of Broadview Holding, Board member of the Rembrandt Society and Board member of the Caldic Museum.