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The NAI was formed in 1988 by a merger of The Stichting Architectuurmuseum, the Nederlands Documentatiecentrum voor de Bouwkunst, and Stichting Wonen. These three organizations placed their collections in the care of the new institute. The history of the collection however, goes much further back. > Read more...
The NAI keeps and cares for roughly 500 archives and individual collections created by Dutch architects, urban designers, professional associations and training institutes. > Read more...
The NAI archives comprise hundreds of negatives and thousands of photographs. Photos from the early 19th century to the 1990s, varying from holiday snapshots to photographic work by legends in the field of (architecture) photography. > Read more...
The NAI’s poster collection comprises almost 1,500 posters from 1893 to the present. They come from the archives of various architects, architecture agencies and organisations, having been collected, and some even designed, by the architects themselves. > Read more...
The NAI library collects and manages information about Dutch and international architecture, urban design, and related design fields such as housing, spatial planning, landscape architecture, and interior architecture. > Read more...
The majority of the collection consists of paper: books, magazines, drawings, photographs, letters, posters and notes. However, there are also a large number of three-dimensional objects: a collection of approximately 1,300 scale models, furniture and crockery from the Sonneveld House, as well as archival objects such as stamps, medallions, colour swatches and construction elements. > Read more...
The Vedute collection comprises a collection of ‘spatial manuscripts’, three-dimensional objects representing the concept of space. This collection is on long-term loan to the NAI. > Read more...
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Works from the NAI archives and library are loaned out for exhibitions both in the Netherlands and abroad. Items from the NAI collection are currently or soon to be on display at the following exhibitions. > Read more...
