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![Srefidensi Foto - RCMC](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/Srefidensi.png?h=3b3023a0&itok=Z9SCLYr7)
Srefidensi Foto
![TM-3444-5. Een plantagedirecteur met huismeid en huisjongen. T. (Théodore) Bray, (1818 - 1887) - RCMC](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/materializing_slavery.png?h=9f0123df&itok=5dF-_aWd)
Materializing Slavery
![Mixtec Artefacts - RCMC](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/visual_mixtec_artefacts.png?h=cc0a3031&itok=afSvHujL)
Turbulent Lives | 2016-2017
![Globalisation, Photography and Race - RCMC](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/rv-10532-a18-22.jpg?itok=INjZB6VY)
Globalisation, Photography and Race
![HERA SINGLE - RCMC](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/single_0.jpg?itok=ISea1NM4)
Creating the 'New' Asian Woman
![CoHERE - RCMC](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/CoHERE.jpg?h=d79b6855&itok=ohewF9va)
CoHERE - Critical Heritages: performing and representing identities in Europe
![RICHES - RCMC](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/riches_0.jpg?h=6e42fd07&itok=15Mi3qu5)
RICHES | 2015-2017
![The Popular Culture of Illegality - Research Center for Material Culture](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/popular_culture_of_illegality.jpg?itok=XPeSuqBf)
The Popular Culture of Illegality
![Baggage and Belonging - RCMC](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/examining-archives_henri.jpg?itok=UMyyJ3Mn)
Baggage and Belonging: Military Collections and the British Empire (1750-1900)
![Museum Affordances - RCMC](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/rv-2668-1978.png?itok=o6nG-C4c)
Museum Affordances
![SWICH - RCMC](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/pk_weltmuseum_wien_swich_project_cm_20141104_01_13x18.jpg?h=aa188141&itok=9r9JpTKE)
Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage (SWICH)
![Photo © Leopoldo Peña - RCMC](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/Leopoldo%20Pena.jpg?itok=ioahNtIY)
Playing with Tradition?
![Highlights from Arabia - RCMC](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/arabian_highlights_0.jpg?h=93a61b9b&itok=s_Bq0Znn)
Highlights from Arabia in the Leiden Collections
![Framing Indonesian Art - RCMC](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/framing_indonesian_art_-_tm-946-2.jpg?h=91d1aac5&itok=mfxepXLT)
Framing Indonesian Art
![Practicing Neighborhood Rituals](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/65_jaar_molukken_tropenmuseum_-_fotos_door_kirsten_van_santen_2016_-140.jpg?itok=CcG3c-WR)
Buurtsalon - Mijn Ritueel
![tm-6424-63a - Activate - RCMC](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/tm-6424-63a.png?h=6a70b3aa&itok=jSBqInf1)
Activate
![Maori Waka in Leiden - RCMC](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/PHmaor01.jpg?itok=h825FOFh)
Vivian Mac Gillavry
![Handelsmuseum - RCMC](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/imageproxy.jpg?itok=eDhxNC-a)
Caroline Spijkers
![Afrika Museum - RCMC](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/1.ghana4%20-%20kopie.jpg?h=43b8291d&itok=JioOgyu7)
Katie M. Sandels
![Anka Bosma MA - RCMC](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/anke_bosma_0.jpg?itok=Yz38z6Yh)
Anke Bosma
![RV-5899-17 - RCMC](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/Kente.jpg?itok=aSByo2mY)
Diasporic Connections: Ghana 60 Years After
![Pacific Presences - RCMC](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/828-63.jpg?h=e8aa6d5b&itok=VDQmOgOI)
Pacific Presences | 2013-2018
![Zwart Beraad - Bijlmer 50 Years - RCMC](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/Zwberaad01%20foto%2024%20juni.jpg?itok=3rlbLWQT)
Bijlmer 50 Years
![Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/TM-10016341.jpg?itok=J3bh1Wzw)
Entangled in History
![Kotomisi](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/Koto%20TM_0.png?h=398ca885&itok=Zty1NxNU)
The Koto
Since 2016, the RCMC/Tropenmuseum and Imagine IC have collaborated on a series of projects that exp
![duval](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/AM-694-1a_Ferry%20Hoogebrug.jpg?itok=mHE3QdkA)
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
![Research Center for Material Culture - Gerbrands lecture](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/Gerbrands_0.jpg?h=bde1ddd1&itok=mdZLIeey)
Adriaan Gerbrands Lectures
![hijra](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/hijra_1.png?h=eb38ca5a&itok=ZpHVn6hS)
Un/Engendering the Collections: Rethinking Gender in the Ethnographic Museum
![hvheh](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/Het%20verleden%20heeft%20een%20huis.png?itok=awu2jumS)
Het Verleden Heeft een Huis
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
![iic](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/DSCF6829.jpeg?itok=oZtoYnSj)
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
![gate](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/gate.png?h=65c7a8db&itok=eV6cPmaI)
Race, Slavery, Colonialism and Capitalism
RESEARCH CLUSTER | 2021 -
This project is a three-year collaboration between the Cen
![koto](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/Research_T%26W_RCMC.jpg?itok=Cfy_luNo)
Collection Research | The technique and/as experience of Afro-Surinamese costume
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE RESEARCH | Jane Stjeward-Schubert, Ella Broek, Michelle Piergoelam
![istemena](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/Istme%C3%B1a_Dress_1_Skirt.png?itok=R2fUhh_S)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/Unnamed%20vr%20apr%2026%202019.png?itok=0EpUdzy4)
Extended Family
Meet our Extended Family, a long-term commitment to collaboration
As a mission drive
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EXTENDED FAMILY PROJECT | CO VID PRO #2
![Snap Black like us mourn like us](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/SNAP-.png?itok=BDIvO61t)
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
![Samoa tatooing](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/zzz-for%20Wonu%20webpage%20not%20for%20the%20newsletter.png?itok=ujomCL2a)
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
![Annette 4](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/Annette%20%233_0.png?itok=Tk4AK-6M)
NWO Award to Annette Schmidt | Museum Grant for Provenance Research | West-Central African Collection
RESEARCH PROJECT
![wampumgordel](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/7202-1.jpg?itok=tE9-fuQL)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_mobile/public/1873%281%29.png?itok=5cgy6Jbw)
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