Our Lord in the Attic Museum is the Dutch candidate for the European Heritage Label

Amsterdam's Our Lord in the Attic Museum (Museum Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder) is the Dutch candidate for the European Heritage Label: a recognition granted to heritage sites with a special symbolic value for Europe. The nomination follows positive advice from the Council for Culture to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. In the coming months, a European panel of thirteen experts will consider applications from candidates for the Label. The results are expected at the end of this year.

Our Lord in the Attic was selected within the theme Tolerance & Law, one of the four categories used during the Dutch preselection for the European Heritage Label. For example, the museum developed Voices of Tolerance, a citizenship programme for vmbo and mbo schools. The project addresses religious diversity and religious freedom internationally, involving mainly young people between the ages of 14 and 21. If awarded the European Heritage Label, the museum aims to expand this intercultural dialogue between young people on a European level. 

The European Heritage Label is awarded to heritage sites of special symbolic value for Europe. These sites have played an important role in European history and culture and in European integration. The Label aims to increase mutual understanding between European citizens and to give European citizens, especially young people, a better understanding of today's Europe and its common cultural heritage. In the Netherlands, four sites now bear the European Heritage Label: the Peace Palace, Camp Westerbork, the Maastricht Treaty and the Colonies of Benevolence.

More information. Also listen to our podcast Europa om je heen about the four Dutch sites that currently bear the European Heritage Label (Dutch).