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.

Calling all children: come and create the future at the Nieuwe Instituut! There’s a brand-new exhibition about the future just for you, with lots of things to do and make.

Visit house museum Sonneveld House during the International House Museums Days and experience the house with all your senses.

Join the Nieuwe Instituut and Milanese cultural agency cheFare for the kick-off event of CIVICITY, the first edition of Redesigning Design Weeks: a multi-year residency programme that invites designers to explore design events’ impact — social, environmental and cultural — on the cities where they take place.

Willem de Kooning Academy and the Nieuwe Instituut present COMPOS(T)ING, a symposium on current trends in regenerative art and design.

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

Aric Chen, General and Artistic Director of the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, has announced that he will leave the organization as of 27 June 2025 to take on a new challenge.

For the Rotterdam edition of Garden Futures, the Nieuwe Instituut invited artist and designer Frank Bruggeman to adapt Formafantasma’s original exhibition design to the local setting.

As part of the Nouveau Grand Tour NL residency programme, artist Iyo Bisseck will spend three months in residence at -1 Digital Lab from April.

Part of the multi-year Redesigning Design Weeks residency programme, CIVICITY is aimed at rethinking the social and environmental impact of design events on their host cities

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').

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.

The Memory of the Designed Landscape programme calls for the protection of garden and landscape architecture archives.