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Netherlands Museum host a considerable amount of cultural objects related to the colonial past with Indonesia. Within the context of the Dutch policy on colonial collections, Indonesia and the Netherlands work closely together on the return of cultural objects to Indonesia.

The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) initiated a research programme implemented by NWO and in collaboration with BRIN, for “Research on collections with a Colonial context”. Furthermore, during 2024-2025, Nuffic has been tasked by the OCW to implement a Cultural Heritage Scholarship Programme, for students and young professionals to obtain a Masters’ Degree in a relevant field at a University in the Netherlands.

As a follow up to the WINNER 2024 session on Cultural Heritage, which presented a mix of students and researchers embarking on their studies and newly commissioned research projects, this session will return to some of these speakers and ask them to share what they have learned over the past year in the Netherlands, and how they will implement their new insights in this field to their future (studies or careers). For example, the researchers will focus on how the approach of Colonial Archives influences Arts Pedagogy and Cultural Knowledge and researching Colonial sound collections in order to establish how Sound renegotiates an Eurocentric understandings of “heritage” and heritage curation. The Master student presentations will focus on collection research, presentation and exchanges between museums and incorporating the knowledge of source communities in Cultural Heritage management