Institutes for research and documentation
The Netherlands
Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD) / Netherlands Institute for Art History
P.O. Box 90418
NL-2509 LK Den Haag
Visitors address: Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5, (entrance via the Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Royal Library), 2595 BE Den Haag
T +31 70 333 9777
F +31 70 333 9789
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W http://www.rkd.nl/
Director: Rudi E.O. Ekkart
Staff: Charles Dumas (chief curator of early Netherlandish painting and drawing), Anita J.W.C.M. Hopmans (chief curator of modern and contemporary Dutch art, press documentation, and archivalia), Karen E. Schaffers-Bodenhausen (chief curator of iconography, foreign art, and library).
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.
Instituut Collectie Nederland (ICN) / Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage
P.O. Box 76709
NL-1070 KA Amsterdam
Visitor's address (information center): Gabriël Metsustraat 8, Amsterdam
T +31 20 305 4545
F +31 20 305 4600
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W www.icn.nl
Director: Ms. Henriëtte van der Linden
The Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage is a leading, independent knowledge institute for the preservation and management of moveable cultural heritage. The ICN has four core tasks: advising on the preservation and management of collections, carrying out research, training restorers and managing the ICN collection. Museums, libraries, archives and other collection custodians can make use of the ICN’s services. The ICN has locations in Amsterdam and Rijswijk and is part of the Ministry for Education, Culture and Science.
The ICN collection comprises more than 100,000 objects. Approximately half of them are on loan to museums and other institutions. The remainder is stored in a storage room at the Collections department, located in Rijswijk, where the ICN has facilities at its disposal with more than 12,000 square meters of storage space and studios for complicated technical activities and restorations.
Part of the collection can be viewed via: www.collectie.nl
Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (Netherlands Department for Cultural Heritage)
P.O. Box 1600
NL-3811 MG Amersfoort
Visitor's address: Smallepad 5, Amersfoort
T +31 33 421 7421
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W http://www.cultureelerfgoed.nl/
Director: C. van 't Veen
Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, often abbreviated as Cultureel Erfgoed and formerly known as Monumentenzorg (English: "Monument Care"), is a Dutch heritage organisation working for the protection and conservation of local, national and international monuments.
Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie / Central Bureau for Genealogy
P.O. Box 11755
NL-2502 AT The Hague
Visiting address:
Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 22
NL-2595 BE The Hague
T +31 70 315 0570
F +31 70 347 8394
Documentation and information center for genealogy, family history and related sciences. The website provides online searches in the library catalogue and the collections.
Centrum Kunsthistorische Documentatie, Universiteit Nijmegen
Erasmusplein 1
NL-6525 HT Nijmegen
T +31 24 361 1677
F +31 24 361 6067
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The Centrum voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie manages a large collection of visual material and offers services for researchers (i.a. delivery of material). The CKD is part of the art history department of the Radboud University.
Belgium
The Royal Institute for the study and conservation of Belgium's artistic heritage maintains an internet guide to organizations, universities, museums and scientists (including theses by subject) in the fields of art history and heritage: BALaT (Belgian Art Links and Tools).
AMVC-Letterenhuis
Archief en Museum voor het Vlaamse Cultuurleven
Minderbroedersstraat 22
B-2000 Antwerp
T +32 3 222 9320
F +32 3 222 9321
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Curator: Roger Rennenberg
The Archive and Museum for Flemish Cultural Life (AMVC) collects and preserves archives of writers and artists, documentation (newspaper clippings, brochures, posters, etc.) and portraits relating to Flemish cultural life since 1750. The AMVC, founded in 1933, is both an archive/documentation center and a museum. The collection can be searched online using the inventory system Agrippa.
Centrum voor de Vlaamse kunst van de 16de en de 17de eeuw
Kolveniersstraat 20
B-2000 Antwerp
The Center for Flemish Art of the 16th and 17th Century is a non-profit foundation set up in 1959. Its fellows are a distinguished group of Flemish and foreign art historians. The aim of the foundation is to further the scholarly study of Flemish art of the early modern period. The main publication of the center is the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, a multi-volume catalogue raisonné of the work of Rubens.
Rubenianum
Kolveniersstraat 20
B-2000 Antwerp
T +32 3 201 1577
F +32 3 231 9387
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Deputy curator: Nora De Poorter
The Rubenianum is dedicated to the assembling, development and dissemination of information concerning the visual arts in the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries, with particular concentration on the work of Pieter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens. It is open to the public and offers guidance both to the general visitor as the specialist researcher. The Rubenianum houses the archive of Ludwig Burchard, which forms the basis fot the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard.
Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium/Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique/Royal Institute for the study and conservation of Belgium's artistic heritage
Jubelpark 1
B-1000 Brussels
T +32 2 739 6711
F +32 2 732 0105
W www.kikirpa.be/www2/
General director and head Dept. Conservation/Restoration: Myriam Serck-Dewaide
Other staff: Christina Keulemans, head Dept. Documentation
Eddy De Witte, head Dept. Laboratories
Established in 1948, the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage is dedicated to the study and conservation of the artistic and cultural heritage of Belgium. As a federal scientific institution, the Institute's primary mission is research and public service. Three departments: Documentation, Laboratories and Conservation and Restoration. The Documentation department contains a library and a photo library (about 850.000 reproductions). The Photo Library Database, free available on the internet, contains several hundreds of thousands reproductions and descriptions of art objects.
Center for the Study of Fifteenth-Century Painting in the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liège
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage
Jubelpark 1
B-1000 Brussels
T +32 2 739 6866
F +32 2 732 0105
The Study Center, created officially in 1955, is specialized in 15th-century painting of the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liège. It has developed into the initiator of international research on the "Flemish Primitives." Its objective is three-fold: to collect art-historical documentation, to carry out and encourage scientific research, to produce three series of publications. The center welcomes the specialized researcher as well as the non-professional art historian.
In anticipation of the future computerized database, the website offers a simple list of approximately 1,700 paintings for which the visitor can consult documentation and bibliography.
Culturele Biografie Vlaanderen
Generaal van Merlenstraat 30
B-2060 Berchem
T +32 3 224 1540
F +32 3 224 1541
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The organization functions since January 2003 as a support facility for archives, preservation libraries, documentation centers, heritage units and museums. The aim is to bolster the practical and strategic development of the cultural heritage field in Flanders.
Other countries
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA
Courtauld Institute, Witt Library, London
Frick Art Reference Library, New York