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Employees of Kho Liang Ie Associates, with interior designer Nel Verschuuren on the right. Photographer unknown. Collection Nieuwe Instituut, archive NVER 100

The National Collection is for anyone interested in learning more about the designed environment. The collection offers an insight into 130 years of Dutch architecture and urban planning, based on the archives of the most important architects and urban planners.

Nieuwe Instituut is responsible for collecting, managing, releasing, researching and making this collection available to the public, in the Research Centre, online and through exhibitions and public activities.

The National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning contains around 700 archives of Dutch designers dating from 1850 onwards. In addition to museum-quality drawings, these include sketches and working drawings, correspondence, photographs, models, posters and objects. In addition to analogue material, the collection also includes born-digital material –archive material originally produced in digital format, such as 3D models, images, videos, animations, renderings and computer code.

In The Re-Centre you can consult archive documents, as well as books and journals on art, interior design, architecture, urban planning and design.

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Looking for a specific archive item? Then use the Search Portal. There you’ll find the inventories of all the archives managed by the Nieuwe Instituut. You can also use the Search Portal to search the library collection.

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Explore

The new Collection Platform allows you to explore the National Collection in an intuitive and associative way through stories, objects and relationships.

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The Re-Centre

The Re-Centre is a space where research, meeting, inspiration, cooperation and exchanging knowledge are central. Visitors can consult archive documents and read books and magazines about art, architecture, urban planning and design. In addition, there are often small exhibitions featuring items from the (library) collection.

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