Boekman Foundation

The Boekman Foundation Institute for arts, culture and related policy (Dutch: Boekmanstichting Kenniscentrum voor kunst, cultuur en beleid) is a research institute for Dutch arts and culture policy and practice.

[1] It was named after the Amsterdam SDAP politician and alderman Emanuel Boekman (1889–1940), who promoted public support for art and culture in his PhD thesis of 1939.

The Foundation hosts a free expertise database and library Kennisbank on art, culture and related policy with 85,000 titles in 2024.

[1] Since 2009, the Boekmanstichting and NWO Geesteswetenschappen (Dutch Research Council NWO, department of Humanities) award the triennial Boekman Dissertation Prize of €10.000 for the best Dutch PhD thesis on art, culture and society.

The year following the award the Boekman journal devotes one of its editions to the winning dissertation.

Emanuel Boekman (1889–1940), 1939.
The quarterly journal Boekman 89. Magazine voor kunst, cultuur en beleid . Contents (in Dutch), winter 2011.