Dutch, More or Less is a presentation of more than 30 years of Dutch design. It brings together the ideas, themes and projects that have placed Dutch designers at the forefront of international design.

The house of architects Aldo and Hannie van Eyck in Loenen aan de Vecht is filled to the brim with the books, films, photographs, drawings and works of art that they collected over half a century. A modest part of this collection is now on display at the Research Centre.

Especially for young visitors, the Inclusieve Kinderboekenclub [Inclusive Children’s Book Club] reads stories to kids in the Garden Futures exhibition space, followed by a fun workshop.

Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.

Author Tineke E. Jansen and others present Tuning In: Darimana? – a book devoted to the rarely heard voices of  Indonesian-Chinese women in the Netherlands of the 1950s and 60s.

Join us as we say goodbye to the Arus Balik – Shifting Currents programme and the Collecting Otherwise project with two fun-filled days of film screenings, cookery, music, harvest celebrations, karaoke, creativity, conversation and more.

ArkDes and Nieuwe Instituut are excited to announce Worldglimpsing: two exhibitions that shine light on the ways in which we inhabit our reality through designed worlds.

A selection of exhibitions and other projects in 2025 at the Nieuwe Instituut, the national museum for architecture, design and digital culture.

Staying with Modernity? explores the many entanglements of architecture, modernity and coloniality. The proceedings of the conference, organised by the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, are now available for download.

An online version of the exhibition Designing the Netherlands is now available on the Nieuwe Instituut's website.

Design and digital culture contribute significantly to the way Dutch society defines, manifests and develops itself. A well-preserved, open and accessible archive is therefore a precondition for the design discipline in order to meet the task assigned to it by Dutch culture and society

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').

Through Sounds is a long-term research project that looks at 'sonic culture' as a field for spatial and social design

With the New Store, Nieuwe Instituut imagines a store where shopping helps the environment instead of harming it. After two New Store pop-up stores in Eindhoven and Milan, you can now step into New Store 3.0 in the foyer of the Nieuwe Instituut.