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Museum for architecture, design and digital culture

Currently on display

Until 21 October 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.

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 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.

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

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A woman in a white shirt, a brown vest and black trousers smiling and standing in the middle with her right hand on her waist

21 September 2023

Thursday Night Detour with Esmée

Join Detour Guide Esmée Dros for the free Thursday Night Detour and explore the museum building and its surroundings.

22 September 2023

Roffa Mon Amour x Nieuwe Instituut: Beasts of the Southern Wild

Water Cities Rotterdam. By Kunlé Adeyemi

Dive into the unpredictable world of film and water as cinema platform Roffa Mon Amour selects a series of water-themed films especially for Water Cities Rotterdam.

23 September 2023 - 24 September 2023

DWNTWN x Nieuwe Instituut

Water Cities Rotterdam. By Kunlé Adeyemi

As part of Water Cities Rotterdam, the Nieuwe Instituut and Kunlé Adeyemi's floating pavilions will co-host a programme for the music festival DWNTWN.

27 September 2023

Inside Outside x Nieuwe Instituut

Water Cities Rotterdam. By Kunlé Adeyemi

Discover how 'bioreceptive' textiles can turn our thinking about construction and building materials upside-down. Design studio Inside Outside explores their interpretation of building with water.

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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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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.

Until 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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Water Cities Rotterdam. By Kunlé Adeyemi

Designing the Social

Soengoe Kondre / Submerged Heritage

Become a Member of the Nieuwe Instituut

Events

Thursday Night Detour with Esmée

Roffa Mon Amour x Nieuwe Instituut: Beasts of the Southern Wild

DWNTWN x Nieuwe Instituut

Inside Outside x Nieuwe Instituut

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