Dear reader,
Welcome to our quarterly newsletter! Read about recent news and developments of the International Heritage Cooperation programme of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed | RCE).
Do you have any questions or suggestions? Please let us know.
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| | | Paramaribo’s famous Waterkant. Photo J.P. Corten 2024 |
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2002 the elegant wooden city of Paramaribo was listed by UNESCO as a World
Heritage Property. The city is considered an exceptional example of the
gradual fusion of European architecture and construction techniques with
indigenous South American materials and crafts. Notwithstanding its World
Heritage status, current developments tend to affect the city’s authenticity
and integrity in a negative way. To overcome these negative impacts and to provide
the inner-city with a vital future perspective, Suriname was granted a loan by
the Inter-American Development Bank. The implementation of this revitalization
was put in the hands of the Paramaribo Urban Rehabilitation Program (PURP).
In order to define the capacities needed for the required revitalization
PURP requested the support of the RCE. By means of a workshop with all local
stakeholders the needs in cognitive knowledge, practical skills and strategic
experience were determined. The RCE conducted the workshop in close
collaboration with the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies
(Erasmus University of Rotterdam) and Stadsherstel Amsterdam. A fist spin-off,
concerning the conservation management plan for the so called Palmentuin, one
of the attributes witnessing the city’s outstanding universal value, will
already be drafted this year. Further exchange between the two countries on the
theme of revitalization is expected to follow. |
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| | | To this day, Papuans still wear mounted birds of paradise with their sumptuous tailfeathers on their heads for special occasions, like the young dancer in this picture. Photo Marc Argeloo |
| | | Birds of paradise are called like that for a reason. After all, birds with such striking feathers must come straight from the Garden of Eden. Wear them on your hat and you feel like you are instantly transported there. Papuans even believe these tropical birds are a kind of ancestor. The Mission Museum has now devoted an exhibit to these stunning creatures. | |
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| | | Despite the fact that the facade has undergone considerable changes, the cinema is now considered a historic gem. Photo Wikimedia Commons / Samuel Wiki, CC0 |
| | In a distant past, the elegant Plaza Theatre in the centre of Perth was the fashionable heart of a fast-growing metropolis on the emerging continent of Australia. But the art-deco cinema has long since been abandoned. Could there still be a future for this orphaned heritage in the middle of the dense concrete, steel and glass jungle of high office blocks?
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| | | The ‘Dutch Wrecks’ exhibition at the Shipwrecks Museum in Fremantle. Photo Daniëlle Vlasblom |
| | In the period of May 11th until May 27th, Prof. Dr. M.R. Manders took two students from the
University of Leiden, Robin Jonker and Daniëlle Vlasblom, to Western Australia
to be part of an international project. The aim of this project is to dig
deeper into the impact of the VOC, or Dutch East India Company, in contemporary
society. The team observed whether there are still traces of this historical
era present in the community and how the local inhabitants view and interpret
these traces.
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| | | Museum Bahari in Jakarta in 2022. Photo Remco Vermeulen. |
| | From 24 June till 5 July, two back-to-back museum
knowledge exchange programmes will take place in Indonesia. In both programmes,
the focus is on developing entertaining family (learning) exhibitions. The
first programme takes place from 24 till 27 June at Museum Geologi (Geology
Museum) in Bandung, and is for museum professionals working at different
national museums managed by the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture
(Kemendikbud). The second programme takes place from 1 till 5 July at five different
museums in Jakarta, and is for museum professionals working at different
museums managed by DKI Jakarta Provincial Government. These museums are: Museum
Fatahillah (Jakarta History Museum), Museum Tekstil (Textile Museum), Museum
Bahari (Maritime Museum), Museum Prasasti and Gedung Joang ’45.
The curricula of these museum knowledge exchange
programmes have been developed by RCE and the Reinwardt Academie, in close cooperation with
the Indonesian partners and Heritage hands-on. The instructors are Mirjam
Sneeuwloper and Koosje Hofman of Reinwardt Academie, Safya Rashwan of
Wereldmuseum and Hasti Tarekat of Heritage hands-on. The programmes are funded
by the Netherlands Embassy in Jakarta, Wereldmuseum and the Cultural Heritage
Agency of the Netherlands. |
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| | | The International Heritage Cooperation programme of the Cultural Heritage Agency of
the Netherlands follows from the International Cultural Policy
Framework 2021-2024 of the Dutch government. Other organisations executing the
national International Heritage Cooperation programme are DutchCulture, the
National Archives of the Netherlands, KIEN and the Embassies of the Netherlands
in the partner countries. For more information on their activities, see their
respective websites.
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