page_title: De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art
hierarchical_section_title: De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Ingang Museum De Pont
context_page_description: De Pont Museum is a contemporary art museum in Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands. De Pont has been named after the attorney and businessman Jan de Pont, whose estate provided for the establishment of a foundation to stimulate contemporary visual art in 1988. With its founding director Hendrik Driessen, the decision was made to transform a Tilburg wool-spinning mill into a museum. Since its opening in 1992, the collection has grown to include more than 800 works by approximately eighty nationally and internationally known artists, among them Marlene Dumas, Bill Viola and Anish Kapoor.
context_section_description: De Pont Museum is a contemporary art museum in Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands. De Pont has been named after the attorney and businessman Jan de Pont (1915-1987), whose estate provided for the establishment of a foundation to stimulate contemporary visual art in 1988. With its founding director Hendrik Driessen, the decision was made to transform a Tilburg wool-spinning mill into a museum. Since its opening in 1992, the collection has grown to include more than 800 works by approximately eighty nationally and internationally known artists, among them Marlene Dumas, Bill Viola and Anish Kapoor.
caption: Entrance Museum De Pont
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