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The Research Centre is freely accessible. There is no need to make an appointment to use the library collection, for consulting archives we ask you to reserve a place in advance. Read more about the Research Centre's facilities and services, making an appointment and requesting archive material.

• Consulting the archive is by appointment only.
• Appointments must be scheduled during our opening hours and specify a date and time slot: From Tuesday to Friday: 10am – 5pm (Time slots: 10am – 2pm; 2pm – 5pm.) You may reserve several time slots if needed.
• In the Research Centre we have four research places for consulting archive material per time slot. Two people working on the same research project can use one research place.

• Please make your reservation at least 48 hours in advance. We would like to receive an application for Tuesday at least Thursday the week before. For the archive collection, you can do this by sending an email with the inventory numbers you want to view to collection@hetnieuweinstituut.nl. You can choose archive material in our inventory via our Search Portal.
• In addition to the documents you want to view, you should include the following details in your email: desired date of visit and a second option, desired time slot(s) and any other comments.
• You will receive a confirmation of your appointment. Without this confirmation, your reservation is not valid.
• Making an appointment in advance for consulting the library collection is possible, but not necessary.

Please contact the Research Centre if you have any questions.

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The Research Centre is freely accessible. When you first visit the Research Centre, we will ask you to fill in a registration form. It is necessary to show valid proof of identity when you register.

The collection of Het Nieuwe Instituut can be perused online via the Search Portal. An online reservation is required in order to be able to do research in the archives. To be able to process your application in time, we ask that you submit your reservation at least 48 hours in advance by clicking on the reservation button in the Search Portal or by sending an e-mail to collection@hetnieuweinstituut.nl. The reservation buttons can be found under the description of the inventory numbers in the archive. An inventory number is the four-letter archive code + a letter and/or number combination. For example BERL44.3 or BROX7t2453

Reservations for Tuesday should be submitted at the latest by the Thursday of the week before. If we have a large volume of reservations, we may ask that you schedule your visit for another day.

In connection with the restoration project Disclosing Architecture, some of our collections may be temporarily unavailable. Contact the Research Centre for more information by sending an e-mail to collection@hetnieuweinstituut.nl.

The library collection is not available for loan and can only be consulted on site. You don't need to submit a request in advance to view the collection. Publications that are kept in the depot will be collected for you to peruse at the Research Centre, after you complete an application form.

There are various possibilities to reproduce material from the collections of the Nieuwe Instituut. In the Research Centre, you can copy, scan and (digitally) photograph documents yourself. However, archival material can only be copied by making a request to our Reproduction Service.

If you want to scan pages from our library collection you'll be able to use the book scanners available. The files can be sent to the computers in the Research Centre or saved on a USB stick.

Groups are welcome at the Research Centre. However, we do ask you to register a group (more than two people) in advance by mailing collection@hetnieuweinstituut.nl. The general rules for reserving archival materials apply.

If you have any questions about the collection, please contact the Research Centre by phone +31 (0)10 440 1270 (during office hours), or send an e-mail to collection@hetnieuweinstituut.nl