history

On May 18, 2016, De Doelen celebrated its 50th anniversary. The building on the Schouwburgplein, which is generally regarded as the final piece of the reconstruction and the start of the cultural reco…

Aretha Franklin, Arthur Rubinstein, Tina and Ike Turner, Miles Davis, Nirvana, Alice Cooper, Herbert van Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker, The Who, Duke Ellington, Bruce Springsteen: the greate…

In 1985 the new wave pop festival Pandora's Music Box took place in De Doelen. It was the last edition of this leading festival, which with its innovative and spectacular programming would set an exam…

Information about the history of De Doelen in Rotterdam, which goes back centuries