[2] 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.

[3] De Pont had decided that part of his estate was to be used to stimulate contemporary art, but left it up to the board of the new foundation to determine how and where that would take shape.

This created the exceptional situation of a private ‘museum’ (director Hendrik Driessen avoided this term for the first couple of years, in the belief that one has to earn such a title) that did not begin with a collection bequeathed by the founder, and which made no appeal for support from government organizations or funds.

[8] After the acquisition of a small painting of Rob Birza (Untitled (The Hand)) was approved by the board, Hendrik Driessen soon started to collect some large and iconic art works, such as Richard Long's Planet Circle and The First People by Marlene Dumas.

Among the masterpieces in the collection are Grapes (Ai WeiWei), Vertigo (Anish Kapoor), Planet Circle (Richard Long), Palpebre (Giuseppe Penone), Hermes Trismegistos I-IV (Sigmar Polke), Black Drawings (Marlene Dumas), Gutter Splash Two Corner Cast (Richard Serra), Große Geister (Thomas Schütte), The Greeting (Bill Viola) and Wachsraum (Wolfgang Laib).

[12] The firm's six-month renovation resulted in a distinctive and widely praised museum building with both a spacious exhibition space and small wool-storage rooms, suitable for a more intimate encounter with the art.

This ‘New Wing’, once again carried out by Benthem Crouwel Architects, was specially designed to accommodate film, video art, photography and works on paper.

On the occasion of the museum's twentieth anniversary in 2012, the municipality of Tilburg adorned its street side with an entrance gate consisting of several connected passages.

It is surrounded by a garden designed by landscape architect Sophie Walker, completing the museum's characteristic entrance.