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.
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.
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.