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Museum for architecture, design and digital culture

Currently on display

Until 1 June 2024

Soengoe Kondre / Submerged Heritage

Soengoe Kondre / Submerged Heritage explores the history of large-scale building projects in Suriname and their consequences for the local population.

Until 6 July 2024

Designing the Social

Designing the Social is an exhibition exploring 100 years of socially driven, idiosyncratic ideas about living together.

Until 11 November 2023

Water Cities Rotterdam. By Kunlé Adeyemi

The Water Cities Rotterdam exhibition is your chance to see impressive floating pavilions by architect Kunlé Adeyemi on the ponds of the Nieuwe Instituut in Museumpark, Rotterdam.

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Become a Member of the Nieuwe Instituut

Join the Members of the Nieuwe Instituut and enjoy free entry to exhibitions and special members-only events.

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4 October 2023

Design Dinners: Redesigning the Designer?

How can designers be supported in (re)designing their practice? Nieuwe Instituut invites 80 practitioners from the fields of design, architecture, digital culture, and interrelated fields in two separate dinners.

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5 October 2023

Thursday Night Detour with Bas

Explore the museum building and its surroundings with Detour Guide Bas van der Kruk.

5 October 2023

Port City Atlas: Mapping European Port City Territories

Explore the newly launched Port City Atlas through engaging discussions with experts. This comprehensive cartographic publication is a visual study of 100 port territories.

7 October 2023 - 8 October 2023

Weekend of Science 2023

REBOOT: Pioneering Digital Art

Come along during the Weekend of Science on 7 and 8 October. Join a special Detour for families and children and visit the latest exhibition, REBOOT.

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Collection

The collection of the Nieuwe Instituut contains drawings, photographs and models from the archives of Dutch architects and urban planners.

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15 September 2023

Nieuwe Instituut and the NFF digital culture programme

On 26 September Ramon Amaro will give a keynote at the Netherlands Film Festival as part of the Digital Culture Programme. That same evening the new NFF fellows will be presenting their work. They were selected by a team that included Ramon and Klaas Kuitenbrouwer.

15 September 2023

Klieon John selected for Tilting Axis Fellowship 2024

Klieon John, from St. Kitts and Nevis, has been selected as the fourth recipient of the Tilting Axis / Nieuwe Instituut Fellowship.

5 September 2023

Alison’s Room XR installation on display at the Netherlands Film Festival

Alison’s Room: An Extended Reality Archive, an XR installation by Paula Strunden, can be seen at various locations in the coming weeks, including in Utrecht during the Netherlands Film Festival.

24 August 2023

A national architecture institute? There's no need for one

A single institution for architecture is not a good idea, write Aric Chen and Josien Paulides in the NRC. Politicians would do better to work with the organisations that already exist – a far more effective way to tackle issues such as the housing shortage.

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Coming soon

On view from 7 October 2023, REBOOT: Pioneering Digital Art is an exhibition featuring key works from 1960 to 2000, plus new interpretations by contemporary makers. REBOOT reveals the influence of digital technology on art and society.

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Agency for Architecture, Design, and Digital Culture

The Agency for Architecture, Design, and Digital Culture connects design fields with questions from the outside world, both regional and international.

Dissolving Earths

Curator Sophie J. Williamson presents the online exhibition Dissolving Earths on the complex cosmologies and ecosystems of the rapidly changing permafrost landscapes, where organic and non-organic matter from across millennia meet, and redirect new futures.

Collecting Otherwise

Drawing on the architecture collection under the Nieuwe Instituut’s management, Collecting Otherwise explores the possibilities for an alternative architectural, heritage and archival practice, one that reflects a society that is constantly changing.

Zoöp

Zoöp is the title of an organisational model for cooperation between human and nonhuman life that safeguards the interests of all zoë (Greek for 'life').

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Sonneveld House

Sonneveld House Museum is one of the best-preserved homes built in the Dutch Functionalist style. It was designed in the 1930s by architecture office Brinkman and Van der Vlugt, renowned for the Van Nelle Factory and Feyenoord Stadium. Sonneveld House shows how a prominent Rotterdam family embraced modernism, and how that choice coloured their everyday surroundings.

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International

Image of an exhibition space. On the left a scaffold with room texts in graphic design, on the right a detailed drawing as high as the wall, with a staircase for closer viewing.

Until 25 November 2023

Plumbing the System — La Biennale di Venezia 2023

On show from 20 May to 26 November 2023, Plumbing the System, curated by architect and researcher Jan Jongert / Superuse Studios, is the official Dutch contribution to the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

24 March 2023 - 2 October 2023

Garden Futures

The exhibition Garden Futures, the first to explore the history and future of the modern garden, is on show from 25 March to 3 October at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein.

Sonneveld House

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Currently on display

Soengoe Kondre / Submerged Heritage

Designing the Social

Water Cities Rotterdam. By Kunlé Adeyemi

Become a Member of the Nieuwe Instituut

Events

Design Dinners: Redesigning the Designer?

Thursday Night Detour with Bas

Port City Atlas: Mapping European Port City Territories

Weekend of Science 2023

Collection

News

Nieuwe Instituut and the NFF digital culture programme

Klieon John selected for Tilting Axis Fellowship 2024

Alison’s Room XR installation on display at the Netherlands Film Festival

A national architecture institute? There's no need for one

Coming soon

Projects

Agency for Architecture, Design, and Digital Culture

Dissolving Earths

Collecting Otherwise

Zoöp

Sonneveld House

International

Plumbing the System — La Biennale di Venezia 2023

Garden Futures