Piet Mondrian was born in 1872 in Amserfoort, a pretty medieval Dutch town 50km south of Amsterdam. His house, which reopens its doors in March after the restoration, stands along the bank of a canal: his father, a rigid Calvinist who was a teacher, had destined a portion of the building to be a school and the remainder as a home. In the upstairs rooms of the Mondriaanhuis, under the sloping wooden roof, thanks to his father, who was a talented draftsman, and his uncle, a skilled landscape painter, the young Piet Mondrian had decided to undertake his studies, with the dream of one day becoming a teacher of drawing.

The meticulous reconstruction of the studio that Mondrian had set up in Paris in the Rue du Départ in 1920 translates in the blink of an eye the modernity and innovative impulse of research pursued over a lifetime. One room is dedicated to the years spent in New York. Here visitors can sit inside a transparent cube and watch the projection of fragments of archival video materials and the reproduction of original sounds of the metropolis in the 1940s, imagining to enter Mondrian's mind and relive the suggestions that they would have led to the creative act of his masterpiece, "Victory Boogie Woogie", which took place right in the Big Apple.