Unwrapping Slavery

How do you deal with a problem you easily get lost in? You draw up a map! That is what the creators of Mapping Slavery thought of when they launched the internationally known public history project about Dutch history of slavery. Other than the German Stolperstein project which focusses on the victims of national socialism, […]

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Rising Tide

Global warming is a hotly debated issue everywhere. Politics is full of deniers, people refuse to act, and big companies are actively hindering meaningful change. However at the same time real people are in real danger. Bushfires in Australia and California, dying coral reefs and droughts affect millions of people around the globe. For the […]

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B(L)ack to the past

In a time where ‘Black Lives Matter’-protests have revived and structural racism is being rightfully denounced, the relevance of the temporary exhibition ‘HERE. Black in Rembrandts time’ is undeniable. This exhibition by Elmer Kolfin and Stephanie Archangel in the Rembrandt house museum, focuses on the presentation of black people in the seventeenth century and wants to shift the attention […]

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