Museum Hoge Woerd, a treasure? – an analysis of the exhibition ‘3000 years of living and working in Leidsche Rijn’

  Leidsche Rijn, by archaeologist and poet Esther Jansma (English version is my own translation)   This poem by Esther Jansma is on one of the walls in the exhibition “3000 jaar wonen en werken in Leidsche Rijn” (3000 years of living and working in Leidsche Rijn). I think a lot of people would agree […]

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The Tropenmuseum: Coming to Terms with the Colonial Past?

Last week, the exhibition ‘Heden van het slavernijverleden’ (‘Afterlives of Slavery’) opened in the Tropenmuseum. On the website it says that: ‘The exhibition places the enslaved and their descendants on center stage. To initiate a sometimes difficult but productive dialogue, the Tropenmuseum has sought out personal stories from past and present that bring the history […]

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