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Sonneveld House

Upcoming events

For an overview of prior events, see the events archive.

April 17, 2025

Thursday Night Detour

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


April 17, 2025

Preview screening: Once upon a Time, a Sheet of Plywood Arrived in Venice

The preview screening of a documentary short film that follows a sheet of plywood on its journey to the Venice Architecture Biennale.

April 24, 2025

Thursday Night Detour

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

April 24, 2025

Counter-forensics: Responding to Police Violence

This Research Night will focus on the case of Sammy Baker, who was killed by the Amsterdam Police on 13 August 2020.

May 1, 2025

Thursday Night Detour

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

May 1, 2025

An Evening With: Sumayya Vally

Nieuwe Instituut invites South African architect Sumayya Vally to talk about her work, career, and what drives her.

May 3, 2025

Discover the Sonneveld House Museum not only with your eyes, but also with your senses of touch, smell and hearing.

May 7, 2025

Take your family on a mission to the future with a special Detour through the Future Makers! children’s exhibition.

May 8, 2025

Thursday Night Detour

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

May 8, 2025

An Evening About: Louis Le Roy

In the 1970s, ‘ecotect’ Louis Le Roy became famous for his wild gardens. How are artists and designers building on his ideas today?

May 15, 2025

Thursday Night Detour

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

May 16, 2025

Nieuwe Instituut cordially invites you to celebrate the opening of Ma Yansong: Architecture and Emotion.

May 21, 2025

Take your family on a mission to the future with a special Detour through the Future Makers! children’s exhibition.

May 22, 2025

Book launch: Gert Dumbar, Gentleman Maverick of Dutch Design

How to condense the rich and varied life’s work of one of the Netherlands’ most famous graphic designers into a book?

May 22, 2025

Thursday Night Detour

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

May 25, 2025

Design Fair 2025

A new edition of the Design Fair – the outdoor market for tastemakers, with a wide range of unique design for every budget – will take place again this year under the Arcade of the Nieuwe Instituut.

May 25, 2025

Curator Lorraine Dunkley invites Members of the Nieuwe Instituut to a special tour of promising young designers at the Design Fair. Which young talents should you absolutely not miss?

May 29, 2025

Rotterdam design studio SUSAN BIJL celebrates its 25th anniversary with the launch of the book Inside The New Shopping Bag and the opening of an exhibition about its iconic tote.

May 29, 2025

Thursday Night Detour

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

June 3, 2025

Transition-Scapes: Reimagining Energy Futures

Closing event of Transition-Scapes, a project that has explored how energy transition scenarios can be visualised through interactive exhibition formats.

June 5, 2025

Amanda T. McIntyre, this year’s Nieuwe Instituut/Tilting Axis Fellow, discusses her project _Present Continuous_, which explores Caribbean carnival culture.

June 11, 2025

Take your family on a mission to the future with a special Detour through the Future Makers! children’s exhibition.

June 12, 2025

How do you archive living, changing things? This one-day symposium explores how regeneration plays an important role in creating future-proof archives.

June 25, 2025

Take your family on a mission to the future with a special Detour through the Future Makers! children’s exhibition.

June 26, 2025

Meet Ma Yansong, the founder of MAD Architects, the practice he runs with Dang Qun and Yosuke Hayano. He discusses the exhibition about his work with Aric Chen, director of the Nieuwe Instituut.

June 26, 2025

Powered by imagination, artifice and creativity, role-playing has found a new place in contemporary culture. Spend an evening discovering how it creates new worlds.

July 4, 2025

Dance of Freedom 2025: Nosagenda X Janilda Bartolomeu

Celebrate Cape Verde’s 50th Independence Day! Enjoy stories, music, workshops and a pop-up expo.

July 9, 2025 - July 11, 2025

Opening WASTELAND Festival 2025 – Out of Sight

Is waste boring? Absolutely not! Join us as we celebrate the opening of the WASTELAND Festival – Out of Sight, kicking off a month full of activities about how Rotterdam deals with waste.

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