The Louwman Museum, the national automobile museum of The Netherlands, is located in a park in a historic residential section of The Hague adjacent to the Queen's palace. It is a new institution dedicated to the care and display of a collection of over 500 vintage automobiles, many of which are either rare or one-of-a-kind. The 110,000-SF program includes secure temporary and permanent exhibition galleries, an auditorium, a reception hall, a conference center, food service, and workshops for conservation and repair. A large barrel-vaulted Great Hall creates an east-west spine through the building, separating the double-height volume of the exhibition area from the lower-scaled U-shaped public spaces that define the entry court. With its distinctive brickwork and steeply sloped peaked roofs and dormers characteristic of traditional Dutch architecture, this section of the building resembles a carriage house, and breaks down the scale of the overall building so as to be sympathetic with the historic context.