đź“…Â Date: February 14, 2026
đź•‘Â Time: 14:00 - 17:00 CET
đź“ŤÂ Place: Chabot Museum https://maps.app.goo.gl/gAiALC3XS8MNT1Gx9
Welcome back, dear mindful museum lovers, to another Slow Museum Saturday! Join me this time to the humble Chabot Museum. I hope you may accompany us to venture into this collection of wonderful and expressive celebration of life.
While doing the usual pre-event research, I found myself having spent an unusually long amount of time appreciating Fire of Rotterdam. Henk Chabot. What was he thinking when he created such a work of art? Was he afraid? Did it hurt? Was he safe? So many questions. How does this wild expressionism bring out so much in me!
I found the room itself to be quite wonderfully composed. So much so that it gave me a new perspective on how to organize the next event. It's a piece of history, this corner. And it is quite evocative. I hope we can mindfully appreciate all of it together this Saturday!
As a sad note, I must announce that this would be the final edition of the meetup in The Netherlands. Due to life circumstances, I am moving to Berlin and taking the meetup with me. Maybe some of you might come and join at an event there. Life never ceases to be a wonderful mystery.
Chabot Museum, Museumpark, Rotterdam.
Short walk from Eendrachtsplein, Chabot Museum is in Museumpark, in central Rotterdam and is easy to reach on foot, by bike, or by car, with a big parking garage directly opposite the museum. You can easily reach it on foot or by bike via the Museumpark/Westersingel area, where there are bike racks nearby. By car, the most convenient option is the large paid Parkeergarage Museumpark directly opposite the museum; for cheaper parking, you can use outer P+R car parks and continue by metro to Eendrachtsplein. You might also walk directly from Central Station.
There is not much space inside so let’s meet right in front of the gate before heading in.
This time, during our excursion, I would like to switch things up a bit. Instead of pointing our attention towards the pieces themselves, I would suggest the groups be at certain points in the museum and take in whatever they fancy. This is partially to accommodate participants who like to look around. But on top of that, I feel that the museums do a great job juxtaposing pieces and creating a composition that warrants appreciation. So the following are the pieces in front of which we will find these points:
Fire of Rotterdam