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Immerse yourself in over 150 years of design history in the Collection Gallery. Enter an interactive, hybrid installation featuring wall-sized projections and mirrored panels. Be guided by physical objects, such as models and drawings, on a digital journey of discovery through the Nieuwe Instituut’s architecture collection.

Fungi – better known as moulds or mushrooms – satisfy many human needs. We have long eaten mushrooms, for example, and used penicillin to fight bacteria. Providing a counterbalance to this human-centred approach is FUNGI: Anarchist Designers presents fungi as independent organisms that thrive in unique, multi-species environments and in the ruins of capitalism.

SIDELINED transforms the Deck of the Nieuwe Instituut into an alternative sports bar – a space to play, question and belong.

With Another Island, researcher and audiovisual artist Janilda Bartolomeu presents a film installation that depicts the dreams of the Cape Verdean diaspora.

The exhibition Reclaiming Space // Reclaiming Narrative showcases student projects developed within the course Architecture and Colonialism at TU Delft, which critically examines architecture not merely as a backdrop to colonial violence, but as one of its most enduring instruments.

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

Sonneveld House is one of the best-preserved homes in the functionalist Nieuwe Bouwen style. In this museum house, you can see how a well-off Rotterdam family lived in the 1930s.

New Garden has been part of the outdoor space of the Nieuwe Instituut since 2015. Ecological management and creating a high level of biodiversity are the starting points for its design.

Part laboratory, part exhibition space, -1 responds to the urgent need to address critical issues in digital culture, from the rapid advancement of AI and the reemergence of do-it-yourself technology to the inclusion of more diverse and alternative voices in computing.

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.