Srefidensi Foto
To mark 40 years of Surinamese independence, artist and researcher Sara Blokland together with FOTODOK initiated the project Srefidensi.
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Materializing Slavery
Materializing Slavery is an ongoing research project on the materiality of enslavement and its afterlives in the present.
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Turbulent Lives | 2016-2017
Two large-scale research initiatives that aim to study the object biography and cultural context of several Mixtec artefacts from Mexico.
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Globalisation, Photography and Race
This project addresses the intersection of new digital technologies and Aboriginal traditions surrounding visual imagery.
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Creating the 'New' Asian Woman
Entanglements of Urban Space, Cultural Encounters and Gendered Identities in Shanghai and Delhi (SINGLE) deals with the representation of single women in China and India.
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CoHERE - Critical Heritages: performing and representing identities in Europe
CoHERE explores the ways in which European identities are constructed through heritage representations and performances.
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RICHES | 2015-2017
RICHES researched the context of change in which European cultural heritage is transmitted, its future implications, and inclusive frameworks for the digital age.
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The Popular Culture of Illegality
This project studies the popular culture through which the socio-political authority of criminal gangs is produced in Latin America and Caribbean countries.
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Baggage and Belonging: Military Collections and the British Empire (1750-1900)
Focussing on military campaigns in India and Africa from 1750 to 1900, this project will undertake an interdisciplinary reappraisal of military collections.
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Museum Affordances
Can historical ethnographic collections transcend the colonial contexts of their collection and be used as resources for decolonisation?
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Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage (SWICH)
SWICH explores the role that ethnographic and world cultures museums can play in processes of citizenship and belonging in contemporary Europe.
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Playing with Tradition?
This project explores the role of sport in society, especially in processes of migration, globalisation, and community and identity formation.
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Highlights from Arabia in the Leiden Collections
This project focuses on the late nineteenth and early-twentieth-century collections on Western Arabia in Museum Volkenkunde and the University Library Leiden.
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Framing Indonesian Art
This research project focuses on how ‘Islam’ was collected, categorized and exhibited in Dutch museums, in particular the almost total absence of Indonesia.
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Buurtsalon - Mijn Ritueel
How can the Museum re-imagine its role and responsibilities in the community in which it is embedded?
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Activate
Activate is a series of projects intended to uncover the contemporary meanings of our collections for local and global stakeholders.
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Vivian Mac Gillavry
Can the waka be seen as an 'ambassador project' and represent Maori people?
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Caroline Spijkers
De introductie van het economisch belang van de koloniën bij het Nederlands publiek (Dutch).
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Katie M. Sandels
An ethnographic exploration of cultural representations of 'Africa' in the Buitenmuseum, Afrika Museum.
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Anke Bosma
Decolonizing Dutch Ethnographic Museums? An analysis of the coloniality of exhibiting war loot.
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Diasporic Connections: Ghana 60 Years After
To mark the 60 anniversary of Ghana’s independence in 1957, the RCMC along with Imagine IC organized a year-long series of events.
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Pacific Presences | 2013-2018
This project investigates the art and history of the Pacific and Europe’s engagement with Oceania through ethnographic collections found in European museums.
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Bijlmer 50 Years
How is and was the Bijlmer important for Amsterdam and its citizens? With this series we aim to highlight the agency in the Bijlmer over the years.
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Entangled in History
The Tropenmuseum and the Royal Tropical Institute, KIT are collaboratively working on the research project Entangled in History. The project researches, interprets and presents the stories of the KIT building, also home of the museum, for a broader public.
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The Koto
Since 2016, the RCMC/Tropenmuseum and Imagine IC have collaborated on a series of projects that exp
The Critical Visitor: Intersectional Approaches for Rethinking & Retooling Accessibility and Inclusivity in Heritage Spaces
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT | 2020 - 2024
The Research Center for Material Culture will work
Adriaan Gerbrands Lectures
The Adriaan Gerbrands lecture is an annual public lecture by a laureate chosen for his or her contribution to the broad international field of the study of visual and material culture.
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Un/Engendering the Collections: Rethinking Gender in the Ethnographic Museum
Un/Engendering the Collections: Rethinking Gender in the Ethnographic Museum forms part of our long term research and collecting interest not just to better engage the role of our museum in the study and representation of gender formations in the global context, but also to propose new collecting practices addressed when gender and sexuality as critical categories of analysis are considered outside a purely European Enlightenment tradition.
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Het Verleden Heeft een Huis
Een complexe verstrengeling van herinneren en vergeten, van bewuste verloochening en onbewuste onwetendheid en van moedwillige maar ook onopzettelijke ontkenning.
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Pressing Matter: Ownership, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums
RESEARCH PROJECT | 2021 - 2025
The National Museum of World Cultures (NMVW) and the Vrije Unive
Religious Homes: The Role of Religion in the process of Homemaking
Since 2016, the RCMC/Tropenmuseum and Imagine IC have collaborated on a series of projects that explore i
Race, Slavery, Colonialism and Capitalism
RESEARCH CLUSTER | 2021 -
This project is a three-year collaboration between the Cen
Collection Research | The technique and/as experience of Afro-Surinamese costume
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE RESEARCH | Jane Stjeward-Schubert, Ella Broek, Michelle Piergoelam
Collection Research | Textile practices as ways to heal, care and resist
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE RESEARCH | Luisa Michelsen, Magdalena Wiener
In regard to the exte
Extended Family
Meet our Extended Family, a long-term commitment to collaboration
As a mission drive
EXTENDED FAMILY PROJECT | CO VID PRO #2
This year, as part of this project, the Extended Family, we have been working with Tjon Rockon from GrandeLoge and OPEN Rotterdam on the collaborative video project CO VID PRO #2.
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Amal Alhaag awarded the Akademie van Kunsten Penning 2022 & SNAP - Black Like Us, Mourn Like Us, Imagine Us
On 20 April 2022, the Akademie van Kunsten/Society of the Arts awarded senior cur
Barbro Klein Fellowship to Wonu Veys | Tattooing in the Pacific Archipelago of Tonga | Piecing Together an Historical and Anthropological Narrative
RESEARCH PROJECT | Tattooing in the Pacific Archipelago of Tonga | Piecin
NWO Award to Annette Schmidt | Museum Grant for Provenance Research | West-Central African Collection
RESEARCH PROJECT
Elizabeth James-Perry | Artist in Residence | Taking Care
Wampum jewellery designer Elizabeth James-Perry will be participating in an artist residency as part of t
1873 Research Project: 150 Years of Shared Histories
This research project uses the anniversary of 150 years of Indian arrival into Suriname as a starting and