The major reconstruction programme, which the Museum of Ethnology began in 1997, was completed in the spring of 2001. Opera’s architectural designers worked with their graphic colleagues to produce the new museum’s spatial environment, its typography, information centre, café, lobby, house style and interactive information provision. In addition to a series of remarkable display areas, this unique design process led to the development of an easily accessible digital archive as well as an interior that provides a model for similar innovative processes in the international museum world. The overall project won the Lensvelt Interior Architecture Prize in 2002, for the most outstanding interior architecture in The Netherlands and Belgium. The unique design process developed during the redesign of the Museum was documented in the book 'IN side OUT / ON site IN: Redesigning the National Museum of Ethnology', published by BIS in 2003. Surface area: 4.000 m2