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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| | | Students at work at the field school (photo: Leiden Archaeology) |
| | The annual field school for underwater archeology this year took place in Northeast Germany. Organized by Leiden University, in collaboration with the University of Rostock and the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the field school previously focused on the Tollense valley, specifically on a possible Bronze Age battlefield. This year, this location was only monitored to check the effectiveness of underwater protection methods of various wooden structures, which have proven to be successful.
The focus of the field school this year was on the Bay of Greifswald, where a suspected 18th-century Swedish shipwreck was explored last year. The bay is fairly shallow, has little current and is therefore an ideal location for a field school. Ten diving students dug a trench over the wreck with a water pump, examined the structure, made drawings and then a 3D model. Special finds such as muskets and a copper cooking pot were discovered. In the coming months, photos and videos of the field school will be shared on the social media channels of Leiden Archeology and the RCE.
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| | | Participants and course coordinators of this year’s Urban Heritage Strategies course in the IHS library© RCE |
| | | During this year’s
Urban Heritage Strategies course, tailored around historic Ukrainian cities
that are currently under military threats and development pressure, the
participants drafted strategic action plans for the case studies of Kharkiv,
Odessa, and Vysokopillia. For Vysokopillia, a small town near the war front in
East Ukraine, Dana Khushman and her group focused on urban planning and
heritage preservation, and how to create rehabilitation plans for future
reference. Svetlana Sukhanova’s group, working on Odessa, explored multiple
successful and unsuccessful examples to learn about different challenges and
objectives that organisations are facing. And Liza Goncharenko and her group
studied ‘urbicide’ in Kharkiv, the intentional destruction of urban heritage,
landscapes, and architecture. | | |
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| | | Participants of the Urban Heritage Strategies course and employees of the RCE in front of the building of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands. © RCE |
| | | Part of this year’s
Urban Heritage Strategies course, a collaboration between the RCE and IHS, was
an international network event where colleagues from Ukraine, but also from
Sudan, Jordan, Sri Lanka and Israel shared experiences. In a series of 12 interactive
workshops, they also spoke about the importance of the historic city as a safe
home base for residents, visitors and workers. And how do you restore the city
that has been shot to pieces? By rebuilding the familiar, or by improving the
old defects? This quickly leads to the dilemma between the short term, which
must alleviate an urgent housing shortage, and the long term, which demands
quality and sustainability. These two do not always go together and require a
reversible strategy. |
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| | | | This summer, Yolanda Ezendam bid farewell
to both the International Heritage Cooperation program and the Cultural
Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, having reached the milestone of her
retirement. Yolanda was active in the cultural field for decades, the last nine
of which at the RCE. We are very grateful to all efforts she put in making the
program to the success it is today. Yolanda enthusiastically connected many
experts in our partner countries on the topic of movable heritage; be it on
contested heritage, restoration of paint varnishes or Surinamese communities
dealing with church organs. One of her last activities centered around the
amazing story of the cultural exploitation of the Papaun Birds of Paradise,
see this weblog. We thank Yolanda for her never failing
knowledge, dedication and enthusiasm! |
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| | | | DutchCulture | International Heritage Cooperation launches an additional open call for the Matching Fund to support projects that highlight the history of slavery and indentured labour in former Dutch colonies and trading posts, and bring these stories to the attention of a broad audience. Deadline: 13 October 2024. | |
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| | | | On the
17th of June the ICOM Conference on decolonisation of museums took place.
During this conference, working group members shared experiences from their
daily practice, with many perspectives. The webinar can now be viewed online. | |
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| | | The
RCE-publicaton 'Faithful Ally with ‘Hollanditis’. Traces of military and civil
defence, and their social impact, during the Cold War (1945-1991) in the
Netherlands' uses six storylines to tell what happened in the Netherlands
during that period of 'armed peace'.
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| | | | Within the theme 'International' two initiatives have been submitted for Faro subsidy: 'Via Molina: European Mill Friends' by Vereniging De Hollandsche Molen and 'Room for new generations' by Stichting Act!On. From 20 September, the final project plans will be on the Faro platform and visitors can indicate what they think of the proposed plans.
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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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