Collection
Het Nieuwe Instituut manages more than 700 archives and collections of Dutch architects, urban planners, professional associations and educational institutions, offering insight into 130 years of development within Dutch architecture and urbanism.
Focus: National
Consist of: The archives include museum quality drawings, sketches, preliminary designs, working drawings, business and personal correspondence, photographs, models, posters, press clippings and published articles. Strenghts: ca 700 archives from the most important Dutch architects.
Extensive model collection.
Museum House Sonneveld, with original interior from 1933
Collection accessible through online catalogue and consultation in the Study Centre.
Collection can be reproduced.
Institute has no conservation laboratory.
Library Holdings
Het Nieuwe Instituut collects publications and audio visual materials on Dutch and international architecture, urban design, and related design fields such as housing, spatial planning, landscape architecture, and interior architecture. The library collection contains around 65,000 books and brochures, 1,300 magazines from the Netherlands and abroad, and a collection of rare 20th-century books and magazines and 18th- and 19th-century folios.