De Pont

Tilburg, Netherlands

Museum De Pont is a contemporary art museum in Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. The founder and namesake of the museum is the lawyer and entrepreneur, Jan de Pont . Before his death, he decided that a portion of his assets would be used to stimulate the contemporary visual arts. This resulted in the opening of the museum in 1992. The collection includes works by more than six hundred seventy nationally- and internationally-known artists, including Marlene Dumas, Bill Viola and Anish Kapoor.