Disclosing Architecture
31 December 2018 - 30 December 2024
Preserving the collection
Within the Disclosing Architecture programme, we preserve and, where necessary, restore hundreds of thousands of design drawings, upwards of 300,000 photo prints and the entire Van Doesburg collection.
Design drawings
The National Collection contains about 1.4 million design drawings, which represent a variety of materials and techniques, including tracing paper, plastic foils and photographic reproduction techniques.
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From family snapshots, holiday albums and pictures of study trips and construction sites, to the work of well-known (architectural) photographers, the hundreds of thousands of photos from the National Collection were created, collected or commissioned by architects.
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The Van Doesburg collection is of great cultural-historical significance and is loaned out to museums at home and abroad more often than any other collection. It is of great importance that this collection remains fully accessible and safe to use.
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