This month, the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands presented the municipality of Hirado with an advisory report, the result of an earlier workshop.
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.
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 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.