The Nationaal Onderwijmuseum has moved from Rotterdam to Dordrecht, an old historic city just 20
kilometers southeast of Rotterdam. This sudden change of location has opened new opportunities and ideas
which enable the staff and stakeholders to reinvent the museum. In the fall of 2014 the Nationaal
Onderwijsmuseum will reopen as an audience focused, distinctive and contemporary museum in which history,
future and current debates on education have a platform. Tijs van Ruiten will focus on the choices that have
been made prior to the change of location and the way in which the museum sought support from stakeholders,
politicians and the general public. He will show the new outline for the exhibitions, the new personal approach
towards visitors en researchers and he will go in to the business model the museum has chosen. The new
museum does not portray the history as a chronological story, nor will it offer the public a range of historical
classrooms. A new approach towards remembering your schooldays and youth, using personal storytelling and
direct experience with the objects will offer the public a new and more intense visit. The museum will further
focus on the period after the second World War and will also incorporate youth culture in its storylines. Last but
not least Tijs van Ruiten will show the plans for the new museum building, a much appreciated architectural
monument, that offers a radiant perspective on the outside, and near limitless possibilities on the inside. In
Dordrecht the Nationaal Onderwijsmuseum will be able to grow both in visitor numbers and in nationwide
attention and interest in its activities in the museum and elsewhere.