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Netherlands Architecture Institute Rotterdam
The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) is the museum of architecture of the Netherlands. You can learn everything about architecture in the museum, from past to present time! The collection of the NAI is one of the biggest architecture collections in the world with eighteen kilometres of shelves containing drawings, sketches, models, photographs, books, journals and other materials!
You will find work from every prominent Dutch architect since 1800 in the archives, including personal archives of famous Dutch architects like Dudok, Cuypers, Berlage and De Klerk.
In addition you can visit the NAI's library which contains over 35,000 books on architecture and related disciplines, plus an extensive range of Dutch and international architectural journals. You can read the publications and archives in the reading room.
Part of the museum is the Sonneveld House (or Huis Sonneveld in Dutch), which is a villa built in the Nieuwe Bouwen style, the Dutch branch of the International School of Modernism. The villa was built in 1932 and has been designed by the same architects as the Van Nelle factory and Feyenoord Stadium in Rotterdam. When you visit the house you can experience what it was like to like in a hypermodern house in the 1930's. You will feel the atmosphere of the modern 1930's and see the latest household gagdets from that time. The villa is just located outside the museum.
The museum organizes a lot of interesting exhibitions as well. Please visit the NAI website to see which exhibitions are now showing. You can also use the NAI as starting point for an architecture trip through Rotterdam because the museum offers lectures and tours for this purpose.
OPENING HOURS Netherlands Architecture Institute Rotterdam
These are the opening hours for the Netherlands Architecture Institute±
Monday Closed Tuesday 10:00 - 17:00 hrs Wednesday 10:00 - 17:00 hrs Thursday 10:00 - 17:00 hrs Friday 10:00 - 17:00 hrs Saturday 11:00 - 17:00 hrs Sunday 11:00 - 17:00 hrs The museum is closed at 1 January, 30 April and 25 December.
RATES Netherlands Architecture Institute Rotterdam
These are the rates for the Netherlands Architecture Institute:
Ticket including access to NAI and Sonneveld House Children under 4 Free Ages 4 through 11 € 1,00 Ages 12 through 17 € 5,00 Ages 18 and above € 8,00 Ticket including access to Sonneveld House only Children under 4 Free Ages 4 through 11 € 1,00 Ages 12 through 17 € 3,00 Ages 18 and above € 5,00
DIRECTIONS Netherlands Architecture Institute Rotterdam
The NAI is centrally located in the Museumpark in city center. You can easily get there by taking the metro to Eendrachtsplein, tram 7 to Museumpark or tram 4 to Eendrachtsplein.
If you come by car you can park your car in the Westblaak or Erasmus Medical Center parking.
MORE INFORMATION Netherlands Architecture Institute Rotterdam
More information can be found on the NAI internet site or by contacting them directly.
Museumpark 25, 3015 CB Rotterdam
Tel: +31 10 4401200
Fax: +31 10 4366975
Website: www.nai.nl
E-mail: info@nai.nlREVIEWS Netherlands Architecture Institute Rotterdam
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