The Centraal Museum manages the Rietveld Schröder House and the complete Rietveld Schröder Archive. The museum is also home to the largest Rietveld collection in the world.

In 1970, Truus Schröder established the Rietveld Schröder House Foundation to preserve the building for future generations. When she passed away in 1985, ownership of the house was passed onto this foundation. After a large scale restoration, the foundation transferred the management of the house to the Centraal Museum in Utrecht. To this day, Centraal Museum is responsible for opening up the historic house and its heritage to the public and for its preservation. In 1987, the Rietveld Schröder House first opened its doors to the public. In 2000, it was added to the Unesco World Heritage List.

The kitchen, shortly after the restoration

Rietveld Schröder Archive

As well as managing the house itself, the Centraal Museum is also responsible for the management and preservation of the complete Rietveld Schröder Archive. Compiled by Truus Schröder, the archive spans 2,000 sketches, 2,000 pictures, 1,800 letters and various texts and other documentation material connected to Rietveld and Schröder. Almost all of the archived material has been digitised. The online archive can be accessed via centraalmuseum.nl.

One of Rietveld's drawings from the Archive, inventory number 004 A 019

World's largest Rietveld collection

The Centraal Museum is home to the largest Rietveld collection in the world, consisting of more than 250 furnishings and other objects, including mock-ups and scale models. The museum's permanent collection, Collection Centraal, always features iconic chairs, drawings and models by Gerrit Rietveld and the Rietveld Schröderhuis. Centraal Museum also regularly organises temporary exhibitions on Rietveld's work. Click here to see what is currently on show at the Centraal Museum.

Online collection

Browse through all the works by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld in the Centraal Museum collection here.