The Van Abbemuseum is one of the leading museums for modern and contemporary art in Europe. The aim of the Van Abbemuseum in the coming years is to work with the two contrasting aims of radicalism and hospitality, experimenting with the subjects and forms of exhibitions and museum projects to ask whether art can offer alternative examples of thinking about how we can live together today.
In 2006, the Van Abbemuseum was announced as winner of the Development Prize for Cultural Diversity by the Mondriaan Foundation for their project plan Be[com]ing Dutch; a 2-year project taking place both inside and outside the Van Abbemuseum, that will comprise of debates, reading groups, artist's projects, exhibitions, residencies and forms of collective participation and production. Be[com]ing Dutch seeks to put our ideas of cultural identity under pressure and examine the process of inclusion and exclusion in the world today.