RKD (Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie)
Netherlands Institute for Art History
Visiting address
Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5
NL-2595 BE The Hague
The Netherlands
Postal address
P.O. Box 90418
NL-2509 LK The Hague
The Netherlands
T +31 70 333 9777 (switchboard)
F +31 70 333 9789
Website
Information
The Netherlands Institute for Art History (Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, or RKD) administers a unique collection of documentary, library of archive material pertaining to Western art from the late Middle Ages to the present, with emphasis on art in the Netherlands. The core mandate of the RKD is the collecting, exploring, managing, and marketing of its documentary, library and archive material. In this way the RKD plays an important supporting role for museums, universities, auction houses, galleries, art dealerships, and other institutions, as well as for independent researchers, collectors, and otherwise interested parties.
Upcoming exhibitions & other events
Previous exhibitions & other events since 1999
- Portrait in portrait in Dutch art (9 December 2012-8 April 2013)
- Symposium Study afternoon Gerson Project (25 January 2013)
- Symposium Historic Wallpaper Symposium (26 October 2012)
- Symposium The historical interior: room for reflection (14 December 2011)
- Symposium Inspiration across the border: Dutch art in a nineteenth-century European perspective. (2 December 2011)
- Course Made in the Netherlands: art from the 15th and 16th centuries (14 August-25 August 2011)
- Lecture Jan van Eyck in Holland (25 August 2011)
- Studio myths (18 September 2010-9 January 2011)
- Symposium Collecting Old Masters (10 November 2010)
- Symposium Picturing art history: the importance of reproductions for art historical scholarship, from the 18th century until now (28 October 2010)
- Symposium The history of collecting (15 April 2010)
- Lecture Hofstede de Groot lecture: Vermeer, Lairesse and composition (5 March 2010)
- Symposium History of conservation (18 February 2010)
- Symposium The gentle art of iconology: some thoughts and afterthoughts (27 August 2009)
- Presentation Max J. Friedländer, a life in archival documents (1 October-19 December 2008)
- Symposium Dutch cityscapes in the Golden Age (11 November 2008)
- Symposium Research at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (1 February 2008)
- Symposium Dutch portraits: the age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals (20 November 2007)
- Reopening Official opening of the New Netherlands Institute for Art History (14 September 2007)
- Symposium On the trail of the researcher: the art historian and his archive as subject of study (10 May 2007)
- Symposium Carel Fabritius (2 December 2004)
- Symposium Open house at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (22 September 2003)
- Symposium Art history and technical investigation: the genesis of Dutch 17th-century paintings (29 October-30 October 2001)
- Pride and joy: children's portraits in the Netherlands 1500-1700 (21 January-22 April 2001)
- Pride and joy: children's portraits in the Netherlands, 1500-1700 (7 October-31 December 2000)