Collection Gallery

In the Collection Gallery, you are surrounded by more than 150 years of design history. You enter an interactive, hybrid installation with wall-filling projections and mirror panels. Physical objects, such as models and drawings, form the starting point of a digital journey of discovery into the architecture collection of the Nieuwe Instituut. The collection managed by the Nieuwe Instituut contains over 700 archives from the period 1850 to the present, with some 4 million objects and 5 terabytes of digital files. Together, they document the history of Dutch architecture and urban planning. The Collection Gallery invites you to browse and explore the richness and polyphony of the collection and, sometimes literally, to zoom in on the stories contained within it.