By Editor Design.nl / 14-09-2007

The State Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) has moved to a new location on the ground floor of the Royal Library complex in The Hague. The new offices, which will make the collections more accessible to visitors, will be opened by Queen Beatrix this week.

The RKD is a research organisation with an extensive collection of documentation in the area of Western art from the late Middle Ages until the present. It collects, evaluates and manages the documents and makes the collection available for research, exhibitions and public projects. The move to a new location comes in the year of the organisation’s 75th anniversary.

The institute manages more than six million images of artworks and is one of the biggest collections of its kind in the world. The collection offers a virtually complete overview of Dutch art. It includes over 1,000 metres of archives of art history, art dealerships and artists, among them hundreds of letters written by Piet Mondriaan and a very extensive collection of portraits of Dutch people of former centuries.

Visitors to the Institute’s website can access a digital database of designer archives. To access them, go to: Centraal Register Vormgevingsarchieven (CVRa).

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