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Projects

Our research projects and programs are intended to contribute to research innovation within fields relevant for ethnographic museums and their collections. The RCMC actively develops and participates in (funded) research projects with national and international research partners, and provides opportunities for researchers at all levels.

Institutional Collaborations

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Taking Care

Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Spaces of Care

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Museum Affordances - RCMC

Museum Affordances

Can historical ethnographic collections transcend the colonial contexts of their collection and be used as resources for decolonisation?
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Research Projects

TM-3444-5. Een plantagedirecteur met huismeid en huisjongen. T. (Théodore) Bray, (1818 - 1887) - RCMC

Materializing Slavery

Materializing Slavery is an ongoing research project on the materiality of enslavement and its afterlives in the present.
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COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT

The Critical Visitor: Intersectional Approaches for Rethinking & Retooling Accessibility and Inclusivity in Heritage Spaces

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT | 2020 - 2024

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The Popular Culture of Illegality - Research Center for Material Culture

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 - RCMC

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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Research Center for Material Culture - Gerbrands lecture

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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Framing Indonesian Art - RCMC

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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Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen
RESEARCH PROJECT

Entangled in History

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Community Projects

Kotomisi
COMMUNITY PROJECT | 2019

The Koto

Since 2016, the RCMC/Tropenmuseum and Imagine IC have collaborated on a series of projects that exp

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Practicing Neighborhood Rituals

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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RV-5899-17 - RCMC

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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tm-6424-63a - Activate - RCMC

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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Fellow Research

Srefidensi Foto - RCMC

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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Student Research

Maori Waka in Leiden - RCMC

Vivian Mac Gillavry

Can the waka be seen as an 'ambassador project' and represent Maori people?
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Handelsmuseum - RCMC

Caroline Spijkers

De introductie van het economisch belang van de koloniën bij het Nederlands publiek (Dutch).
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Wayang Kulit - Photo Tentrem Yogyakarta - RCMC

Eva Christiane von Reumont

Applying 'Western' Conservation Ethics onto Javanese Wayang Kulit.
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Afrika Museum - RCMC

Katie M. Sandels

An ethnographic exploration of cultural representations of 'Africa' in the Buitenmuseum, Afrika Museum.
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Anka Bosma MA - RCMC

Anke Bosma

Decolonizing Dutch Ethnographic Museums? An analysis of the coloniality of exhibiting war loot.
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MA de Jong - RCMC

Charlotte de Jong

Sámi Identity Representation and Revitalization in Northern Norway.
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Past projects

Srefidensi Foto - RCMC

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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TM-3444-5. Een plantagedirecteur met huismeid en huisjongen. T. (Théodore) Bray, (1818 - 1887) - RCMC

Materializing Slavery

Materializing Slavery is an ongoing research project on the materiality of enslavement and its afterlives in the present.
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Mixtec Artefacts - RCMC

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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All past projects

Tropenmuseum is a museum about people, located in one of the most beautiful original museum buildings in the Netherlands.

Afrika Museum is a museum about people, located in the wooded area of Berg en Dal.

Museum Volkenkunde is a museum about people, located in a monumental building on the Singel.

Wereldmuseum in Rotterdam is a museum about cultures in the present and the past.

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