Welcome to the Van Doesburg-Rinsema House - the museum house of Museum Dr8888. You have just been given an explanation about the use of this audio tour and you have watched the film Krabben aan verf or Scratching at paint in English. After this useful introduction to the subject you can now focus on viewing what constitutes the largest part of the Museum Dr8888 collection. Our museum house was opened in 2018 after six years of research and reconstruction and bears the names of the people without whom this house would not have come into being almost a hundred years ago: Theo van Doesburg and the brothers Thijs and Evert Rinsema. The design of the house you are in came about in 1920; the house itself was completed in 1921, with striking colours inside as well as outside: it was the first house to be completed in a housing complex designed for middle-class residents. Sixteen houses, designed by municipal architect Cees Rienks de Boer, and spread over three streets, were completed and painted in the colour schemes designed by Theo van Doesburg. The commission to design the colour schemes was given when the construction was already at an advanced stage. Van Doesburg was therefore starting late and had to work fast so as not to fall further behind. When the researchers penetrated to the first layers of paint they came to some surprising discoveries. The special collaboration between Van Doesburg and De Boer had led to a surprising and breathtaking result unlike anything found in any other house or housing complex. We hope you enjoy your visit to the Van Doesburg-Rinsema House. Now make your way through the kitchen and the hallway to the front room, where the next part of the audio tour begins: