Upcoming events
For an overview of prior events, see the events archive.
January 23, 2025
Thursday Night Detour
Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.
January 30, 2025
Thursday Night Detour
Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.
February 1, 2025 - February 2, 2025
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.
February 1, 2025
Book Presentation Tuning In: Darimana?
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.
February 6, 2025
Book Presentation Nooit gebouwd Nederland
Book presentation of Nooit gebouwd Nederland by Cees Nooteboom. The publication is a personal and poetic telling of the history of Dutch architectural designs which have never been built.
February 6, 2025
Thursday Night Detour
Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.
February 6, 2025
Fashion in Flux Presents: FEELING FASHION
During the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025, Fashion in Flux invites you to experience fashion through film. Special guest is filmmaker Hadi Moussally.
February 13, 2025
Thursday Night Detour
Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.
February 13, 2025
Book launch Architecture After War
Bohdan Kryzhanovsky presents his book Architecture After War: A Reader. An evening about post-war reconstruction in the light of the current war in Ukraine.
February 20, 2025
Thursday Night Detour
Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.
February 23, 2025
Graphic Design Fair 2025
Nieuwe Instituut and NAi Booksellers are organising a new edition of the Graphic Design Fair.
February 27, 2025
Thursday Night Detour
Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.
February 27, 2025
An Evening With: Hassan Hajjaj
Nieuwe Instituut and DAR Cultural Agency invite artist and photographer Hassan Hajjaj to talk about his practice, his North African roots and the influence of London’s music scene on his work.
March 1, 2025 - March 2, 2025
Museumnacht010 2025: Future Visions
Manifest the future during Museumnacht010 at the Nieuwe Instituut! What is your green, digital, urban, inspiring or imaginative dream for the future?
March 27, 2025
Book Launch Acid Clouds: Mapping Data Centre Topologies
Ramon Amaro and Niels Schrader present their new book Acid Clouds, about new ways to look at the ownership and control of data.