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Discover the rich history of the former Land of Hoboken in this combined viewing tower and exhibition space.

Pay a virtual visit to every floor and room of Sonneveld House using VR or iPad. We want to give as many visitors as possible the chance to discover the interior of Sonneveld House ‘in real life’. That’s why visitors can now experience the entire house in 3D, while listening to the audio tour, from the colourful and wheelchair-accessible ground-fl…

The online program of the Iconic Houses conference will bring you insights into Dutch residential architecture of the 20th century and will strengthen the network of museum professionals who run modern house museums. How did progressive architecture develop in The Netherlands in the past hundred years and what have the residents of 'normal houses…

Sonneveld House is not only remarkable in terms of its modern design and luxurious and comfortable interior. It was also designed as a "healthy home" for mind and body. A new audio tour, created in response to the coronavirus pandemic, sheds fresh light on this innovative design by architects Brinkman and Van der Vlugt.

In Sonneveld House, designer Gijs Bakker and poet K. Schippers present combinations of jewellery and poetry selected especially for this exhibition from their extensive oeuvres. The result is an environment in which visitors can make new connections and entertain alternative interpretations.

A duo lecture in Sonneveld House with designer Sabine Marcelis and architecture historian Hetty Berens. Marcelis and Berens will each reflect upon De Stijl as a design movement by looking at a specific interior design project. The two stories make clear that De Stijl was far from being an isolated avant-garde project but was and remains highly inf…

Sonneveld House is a prime example of the Nieuwe Bouwen style. The design drawings show that while the functionalistic form of the house came easily, deciding on a functional layout proved to be more difficult. Starting from various archive materials, architecture historian and curator Hetty Berens explores the design history of the house. What ch…

The French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster created a work especially for Sonneveld House that will be on show from 13 November 2016 until 6 March 2017 in the museum house. Opera-house by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster is a conceptual domestic opera based on early 20th-century operatic music and technology.

Het Nieuwe Instituut has acquired a set of original Gispen furniture that stood in the living room of Sonneveld House until the 1950s.

From 12 June 2016 Irish artist Eva Rothschild will present work commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut that reacts to the status of Sonneveld House as a museum house.