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Last thursday, 28, 05, Muriel Huisman and Wim Pijbes visited the Philips Wings Works with the press. Was also announced the date of the opening of the Philips Wings, next 1 November 2014. Completing the transformation of the Rijksmuseum, the fully renovated Philips Wing will once again open its doors to the public on 1 November 2014. The Rijksmuseum will use the Philips Wing to organise exhibitions both large and small, national and international. The first in the series will be Modern Times, Photography in the 20th Century (with thanks to Baker & McKenzie), featuring 400 works from the Rijksmuseum’s rich 20th-century photography collection. The newly renovated gallery circuit boasts thirteen exhibition galleries, including a separate gallery for changing photography exhibitions and a large restaurant, ‘New-Style Brasserie’, with a sun terrace. The Philips Wing has been renovated by Spanish architects Cruz and Ortiz, who were commissioned by the Dutch Government Buildings Agency, the owner of the Rijksmuseum’s building. The opening of the final section of the new garden around the Philips Wing this autumn will mark the completion of Rijksmuseum’s ‘green lung’. The new garden around the Philips Wing will also feature a small 18th-century pavilion, in front of which will be chequered paving where visitors can play chess with giant chess pieces at set times. The collection of building fragments and architecture will also welcome a wonderful new addition, one of the iconic pieces of the ‘Nieuwe Zakelijkheid’- modernist architecture: the 1931-32 Brinkman & Van der Vlugt telephone box.