The Netherlands Insittute for Sound and Vision is the largest audiovisual archive in the Netherlands. It has a cultural-historical task and functions besides as the public broadcasting company archive.

Sound and Vision was created through a fusion in 1997, under the name 'Netherlands Audiovisual Archive'. The fusion took place between the archives of the public broadcasting companies, the Film Archive of the Government Information Service, the audiovisual archive of the Foundation for Film and Science, and the Broadcasting Museum. Sound and Vision collects and conserves audiovisual heritage and makes it available to the biggest possible number of users, especially in education.

Sound and Vision will move to a new site in 2006, where 10,000 hours of audiovisual heritage will find a home. The new building will also present a 'media-experience', which will introduce the public to past and present of Dutch media culture.

Sound and Vision's digital plans