What does the sun have to tell us? Discover in the exhibition The Energy Show that solar energy has been veeeery important for a veeeeery long time and that designers of today are coming up with the smartest and prettiest ideas for working together with the sun. And you can contribute to this. Go on an expedition with the entire family! Create designs for a future with sustainable energy and unveil secret messages.

Every Thursday night a Detour Guide takes you on a free Detour through one of the exhibitions on display at Het Nieuwe Instituut. Discover design, digital culture and architecture from the perspective of your guide. Every Detour is different: you might end up working on a joint choreography or designing a space for insects.

Every Thursday night a Detour Guide takes you on a free Detour through one of the exhibitions on display at Het Nieuwe Instituut. Discover design, digital culture and architecture from the perspective of your guide. Every Detour is different: you might end up working on a joint choreography or designing a space for insects.

Every Thursday night a Detour Guide takes you on a free Detour through one of the exhibitions on display at Het Nieuwe Instituut. Discover design, digital culture and architecture from the perspective of your guide. Every Detour is different: you might end up working on a joint choreography or designing a space for insects.

Every Thursday night a Detour Guide takes you on a free Detour through one of the exhibitions on display at Het Nieuwe Instituut. Discover design, digital culture and architecture from the perspective of your guide. Every Detour is different: you might end up working on a joint choreography or designing a space for insects.

Every Thursday night a Detour Guide takes you on a free Detour through one of the exhibitions on display at Het Nieuwe Instituut. Discover design, digital culture and architecture from the perspective of your guide. Every Detour is different: you might end up working on a joint choreography or designing a space for insects.

Join Detour Guide Laura Grimm on Thursday 18 August at 7pm for a free Thursday Night Detour through the exhibition MVRDVHNI: The Living Archive of a Studio. Become an architect for the night and build your own sculptural scale models from disco balls, tea towels and screwdrivers.

Join us for a free Thursday Night Detour on 11 August at 7pm. Detour Guide and professional observer Pia Canales shows us around Designing the Social. Or in this case, designing the anti-social. Come along and discover the exhibition from her point of view and explore the power of the angry mountain. 

Join us on Thursday 28 July at 7pm for a Thursday Night Detour through MVRDVHNI: The Living Archive of a Studio. Learn all about the DNA of MVRDV together with Detour Guide Maartje de Winter and get started on your own core values. 

Join Detour Guide Wietske Flederus on Thursday 21 July at 7pm for the Thursday Night Detour through the exhibition In Search of the Pluriverse. Take a look at how everything is connected and explore how they influence each other in the world. 

Experience the summer from new heights at Het Nieuwe Instituut. During FamilieFest Summer Camp(ing), families are invited to enjoy a variety of workshops in, around and on top of The Podium. Explore the building from different perspectives, make your own ice cream or pizza, dance as wild as you can during Alien Disco Spectacle and much more!

On Thursday 14 July (at 7pm) Detour Guide Winston Nanlohy will take you through Designing the Social. During this free Thursday Night Detour, explore what 'the social' entails, what is meant with 'spatial appropriation' and discover which voices are represented in the exhibition. 

Join Esmée on 30 June for a free evening Detour through the archive of MVRDV and discover the stories behind the architecture.

Join us for a free Thursday Night Detour on 16 June at 7pm. Professional observer Pia Canales shows us around In Search of the Pluriverse. Come along and discover the exhibition from her point of view!

Join guide Laura Grimm on Thursday 2 June at 7pm for a free Detour through In Search of the Pluriverse. Experience the exhibition from her perspective as an artist!

Join graphic designer Esmée Dros on Thursday 19 May at 7pm for the Thursday Night Detour through The Future Through Artificial Eyes exhibition.

Join artist Laura Grimm on Thursday 5 May at 7pm for a free Detour through In Search of the Pluriverse and experience the exhibition from her perspective.

Start off your May holiday with FamilieFest: More Than Just Party Animals! Explore with the entire family what it is like to be more-than-human through surprising activities and workshops. 

Join guide Esmée Dros for the Thursday Night Detour on 14 April at 7pm when she shares her perspective on The Future Through Artificial Eyes exhibition.

Join us for a Sunday Stroll on 27 March at 2pm, when Detour Guide Joëlle Hoogendoorn shows us around the 1930s museum home Sonneveld House. From her perspective as an artist and educator, she focuses on the house’s interior design, especially the use of colour, form and style. Come along and discover this unique home through her eyes!

Join us for a Sunday Stroll through The Architecture of Staged Realities on Sunday, 13 March at 2pm. Together with Detour Guide Esmée Dros, we explore Walt Disney’s continuing influence on how we live and think.

During the spring break, families are invited to come together for our first ever bilingual FamilieFest! Together with the (international) team behind the research project Collecting Otherwise, you will take on the role of archivist during FamilieFest: Collection of Us. In all sorts playful ways, you will discover how we can collect, how we ourselves are collections, and how we can take care of those collections. Help us design letters that will become a part of our archive, contribute to our very own FamilieFest: Collection of Us zine, build your own archive, and more! 

Join us for a Sunday Stroll on 20 February at 2pm, when Detour Guide Joëlle Hoogendoorn shows us around the 1930s museum home Sonneveld House. From her perspective as an artist and educator, she focuses on the house’s interior design, especially the use of colour, form and style. Come along and discover this unique home through her eyes!

Join us for a Sunday Stroll on 30 January at 2pm. Detour Guide Pia Canales shows us around the exhibition The Architecture of Staged Realities, which focuses on the influence that Walt Disney's work has on our thinking and our built environment. Come along with professional observer Pia and discover this wonderful world from her point of view.

Join us for a free Sunday Stroll on 12 December,at 2pm, when detour guide Maurik Stomps leads us through the Temporary House of Home exhibition. As a designer and artist whose work focuses on the public realm, Maurik explores the changing role of home with us. Come along for a different look at domesticity!

Join us for a free Sunday Stroll on 28 November at 2pm, when detour guide Joëlle Hoogendoorn will show us around the 1930s museum home Sonneveld House. From her perspective as an artist and educator, she will focus on the house’s interior design, especially the use of colour, form and style. Come along and discover this unique home through Joëlle’s eyes!

Join us for a free Sunday Stroll on 31 October at 2pm. Detour guide Erik Peters will show us around The Architecture of Staged Realities. Central to this exhibition is the influence that the work of Walt Disney has on our thinking and surroundings. Come along and discover the exhibition from Erik’s point of view.

Families celebrate the autumn break in Het Nieuwe Instituut with FamilieFest: Verziensels. Be surprised by the activities and workshops revolving around the exhibition The Architecture of Staged Realities. Transform yourself into a Disney figure, create your own mobile with shapes, learn how to design with light and much more! 

Join us for a free Sunday Stroll on 10 October at 2pm. Detour guide Pia Canales will show you around the exhibition The Architecture of Staged Realities. Central to this exhibition is the influence that the work of Walt Disney has on our thinking and surroundings. Come along with professional observer Pia and discover this wonderful world from her point of view.

Join us for a free Sunday Stroll on 26 September at 2pm, when detour guide Joëlle Hoogendoorn will show us around museum home Sonneveld House. Using her perspective as an artist and educator, she will focus on the house’s interior design, especially the use of colour, form and style. Come along and discover the home from her point of view.

Join detour guide Bas van der Kruk for a free surprise Sunday Stroll on 12 September at 2.30pm. Will you explore the wonderful world of Walt Disney in The Architecture of Staged Realities? Or experience a century of social change in Designing the Social? Or perhaps you’ll investigate domestic design in Temporary House of Home? Come along on Sunday to discover which of the exhibitions you’ll get to experience through Bas’s eyes. 

The Design Deck at Het Nieuwe Instituut turns visitors into digital designers. In Criss, Cross, Who Is It That I Wish I Was? you can design your own wondrous world and the creatures that live in it. Your design is scanned, bringing it to life on a bigger screen where it imitates the craziest movements you can come up with.

Go to school, don’t go to school, missing your friends and family, stuck at home, getting bored... it’s been a strange school year. FamilieFest: Oppepper! gives you an energy boost to start the new school year full of energy and enthusiasm. It’s a day of dancing, making beats and having fun. This special summer edition of FamilieFest will take place entirely outside on the (covered) arcade of Het Nieuwe Instituut.

Join us for a Sunday Stroll on 15 August at 2pm, when Joëlle Hoogendoorn will show us around Sonneveld House. From her perspective as an artist and teacher, she will focus on the house’s interior design, especially the use of colour, form and style.

Join us for a Sunday Stroll on 1 August at 2pm, when Asha Capella will lead us through Lithium. This exhibition, imagined as a spa retreat, invites visitors to experience the states of exhaustion and revitalisation that characterise today’s 24/7 economy. Asha will focus on our own batteries: what recharges us, and what drains us? 

Join us for a Sunday Stroll on 18 July at 2pm, when detour guide Erik Peters will explore the Lithium spa with us. Together, we will investigate the parallels between bodily and planetary exhaustion, speculate about alternative energy sources and imagine how the extremes of the future might look.  

Be one of the first to explore Designing the Social with detour guide Bas van der Kruk! The tour takes place during the exhibition’s opening weekend, on 4 July at 2pm. Based on his perspective as a performer, writer, artist, and creative advisor, Bas’s guided detours usually focus on text and movement. 

Join us for a Sunday Stroll on 20 June (14:00), when detour guide Bas van der Kruk will explore the Lithium spa with us. From his perspective as a performer, writer, artist, and creative advisor, he will focus on Lithium as a source of energy. Where does energy come from? How do we generate it? And what is it, actually? Wear something comfortable, because according to Bas, energy is movement.

Grab your last chance to explore the exhibition Art on Display 1949-69 with detour guide Shahaila Winklaar on Sunday, 6 June at 2pm. Together with Shahaila, we will explore how this exhibition draws our attention to the way artworks are presented, rather than to the objects themselves. 

Join us for a Sunday Stroll on 14 February, when Joëlle Hoogendoorn will show us around Sonneveld House. From her perspective as an artist and teacher, she will focus on the house’s interior design, especially the innovative use of colour, form and style.

For our next Sunday Stroll on 17 January, Joëlle Hoogendoorn will show us around Sonneveld House. From her perspective as an artist and teacher, she will focus on the house’s interior design, especially the use of colour, form and style.

Join the Sunday Stroll on 3 January and explore the exhibition Art on Display 1949-69 with detour guide, artist and lawyer Shahaila Winklaar. Together with Shahaila, we will investigate how Art on Display draws our attention to the way artworks are presented, rather than to the artworks themselves.  

For our next Sunday Stroll on 20 December, Joëlle Hoogendoorn will show us around Sonneveld House. From her perspective as an artist and teacher, she will focus on the house’s interior design, especially the use of colour, form and style.

Join us for a Sunday Stroll on 6 December, when detour guide Erik Peters will explore the Lithium spa with us. Together, we will investigate the parallels between bodily and planetary exhaustion, speculate about alternative energy sources and imagine how the extremes of the future might look. 

On Sunday 22 November, Semm Capella is our detour guide to the exhibition Art on Display, which focuses on the way art is presented. Usually, we concentrate on the artworks on show, paying little attention to how they are shown. During this Sunday Stroll, Semm will investigate this experience, and will share his opinion on the presentation of art.

During the next Sunday Stroll (1 November), detour guide Pia Canales will show us around the exhibition Art on Display 1949-69, which focuses on the way art is presented. Usually, we concentrate on the artworks on show, paying little attention to how they are shown. Together, we will shift the balance.

On Sunday 25 Oktober (2pm), detour guide Erik Peters will lead us through the exhibition Lithium. During this Sunday Stroll, Erik will take us on a retreat through the Lithium spa, where he will discuss bodily and climate exhaustion. Erik will speculate with us about alternative energy sources, and imagine what the extremes of our futures might look like. 

For the next Sunday Stroll, on 4 October at 2pm, detour guide Asha Capella will lead us through the exhibition Lithium, about the mineral that powers the batteries of our mobile phones, laptops and electric vehicles. During the event, Asha encourages us to check our own batteries and discover what energises us and what depletes us, as individuals and also as a society. 

In her Sunday Stroll of 20 September, detour guide Joëlle Hoogendoorn led us through Sonneveld House. From her perspective as an artist and art teacher, she focused on the use of colour, shape and style. 

On 6 September, detour guide Erik Peters took us through the exhibition Atelier Nelly and Theo van Doesburg in a Sunday Stroll that focused on narratives. Alternative storylines discussed included the alter egos of Nelly van Doesburg, ‘the black lines of De Stijl’, the tesseract and the vanished cube.

CANCELLED

Asha Capella planned a tour focused around G/D THYSELF and on rituals, both as elements of the installation, and as an influence on our own lives. 

Interaction designer Florian van Zandwijk guided us through a hoodie-based reflection on reality, and how digital media changes the way we see it.

Designer, researcher and musician Erik Peters devised a digital detour to explore the design of the future. How do we represent ‘the future’ in the media, and what does speculative design look like?

Artist and lawyer Shahaila Winklaar hosted this Sunday Scroll on 24 May 2020 on Facebook Live. This digital detour is an exploration of the theme of womanhood.

Life in isolation invites us to reflect and redefine who we are. Many of us are wondering who we would really like to be, and why.

‘Art-directucator’ Pia Canales hosted this week’s Sunday Scroll (3 May) on Facebook Live. This digital detour was an exploration of themes she has an expertise in: the world of memes. What are memes, what is their history and what is the origin of their recognizable design?

Performer, writer and artist Bas van der Kruk hosted this week’s Sunday Scroll (19 April) on Facebook Live. His digital detour was focused on the hoodie and movement.

Artist Joëlle Hoogendoorn hosted the Sunday Scroll (5 April) on Facebook Live. This digital detour was an exploration of themes in The Hoodie exhibition that speak to her as a creator. Her scroll focused on the representation of the hoodie in visual art.

Artist and lawyer Shahaila Winklaar hosts the second Sunday Scroll on Facebook Live. This digital detour is an exploration of themes in The Hoodie exhibition that speak to Shahaila as an artist and maker.

Het Nieuwe Instituut's production location turns visitors into digital designers. In Make a Move (Bureau Nou & Herkauw) you design your own digital protest outfit. Plastic soup, bullies and melting polar caps: there’s plenty to take a stand against!

Discover The Hoodie exhibit in an online tour. The detour team of Het Nieuwe Instituut made this tour especially for families. They tell you about their favourite pieces in the exhibition, ask questions and discuss details that interest them.

Discover Het Nieuwe Instituut's exhibition(s) during a Sunday Stroll with Pia Canales. She will show you around from her perspective as a professional observer and hyper-curious art lover.

Discover Het Nieuwe Instituut's exhibition(s) during a Sunday Stroll with Pia Canales. She will show you around from her perspective as a professional observer and hyper-curious art lover.

Discover Neuhaus during a Sunday Stroll with Sven Jansse. He will show you around the academy from his perspective as an architect, photographer and artist.

Discover Neuhaus during a Sunday Stroll with Sven Jansse. He will show you around the academy from his perspective as an architect, photographer and artist.

As a teenager Diana Ritfeld was excited by the traditional Suriname headscarves that her grandma wore. These angisas are Surinamese cultural heritage; each form expresses a different message. The creative headscarves that Ritfeld wears and distributes are created without any pre-conceived plan and are artistic, free designs. Be just as spontaneous in creating your own headscarf with the help of Diana.

The poet Dean Bowen is interested in the reproduction of memories, or what amounts to telling ourselves fictional stories. How much is fiction, and how can this fiction be deployed as a strategy to communicate about our inner world? Take part in an exercise in unoriginal writing with Dean Bowen in order to become dishonest, perhaps in a slightly more honest way.

Fashion designer Charlotte Kan is always looking for new techniques. During the last few months she has been focusing on experimenting with photosensitive paint.

What kind of local support systems can we build right here and now? In the course of the workshop, a map, a timeline and a strategy will be created, for building complex patterns and systems of change through relatively small interactions.

This workshop has been cancelled.

The architect Arna Mačkić is concerned with questions of collective identity in countries and cities, and in how architecture can play a mediatory role. In this workshop she introduces participants to her way of thinking, leading to a more inclusive approach to the design of public space.

Spend an afternoon making your own simple sports bra or triangle bra under the supervision of Esther Dekker. Experience in making lingerie is not necessary, but some experience using a sewing machine is required. During the lesson you learn how a bra is put together and which techniques are needed to do it.

In this workshop children examine ways to improve sporting achievements. Under the supervision of Yuri Veerman, the maker of the interactive documentary 51 Sprints, children build their own super athlete. What do you need besides condition and determination to become a top athlete?

Children design a game in which technology can improve the body. They work with conductive ink, LEDs and a 3D printer, and learn how an electric circuit works. Inspired by the well-known game Dokter Bibber.