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.
Previous exhibitions & other events since 1999
- 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)
- 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)