In 1989 the Institute was able to reap many of the results of the harvest sown in the preceding years. For a start, the Institute moved to the rapidly changing
Eastern Docks redevelopment area of Amsterdam, opposite the location where the memorable railway strike of 1903 started. The new home offered facilities
the Institute had never known before: spacious, air-conditioned storerooms with movable racks, study cubicles and study group rooms, an exhibition floor as
well as flexibly furnished meeting and congress halls, equipped with facilities for simultaneous translation. For the first time in more than half a century, it can be
affirmed that the Institute is physically ready to carry out its work.
