Photographer Luuk Kramer travelled to Japan in April to photograph historical waterworks designed by Dutch engineers for his project on water-related heritage.
This month, the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands presented the municipality of Hirado with an advisory report, the result of an earlier workshop.
On May 5th, the New York State Museum opened an ongoing exhibition highlighting never-before-displayed artefacts from the 17th-century fortress Fort Orange.
In May, StreetDeets Inc., together with the New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library, organised a bike tour along Dutch farmhouses in Brooklyn.
The Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands developed the app ‘Maritime Stepping Stones’ with information on Dutch shipwrecks throughout the world.
A symposium in Amsterdam on June 21st will explore the idea, production and circulation of Indonesian modern art in relation to the country’s colonial past.
In May 2018, archivists from the National Archives of the Netherlands visited the National Archives of Sri Lanka, with plans to digitise archives in Colombo.
A lot of research in the heritage field is being done by interns, but may go unnoticed. The Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands highlights two examples.