Human remains are a part of physical anthropological and archaeological collections worldwide. Engaging with the current debates on the colonial origins of…
Germany is the first European country to permanently return colonial looted art. This increases the pressure on other countries to follow suit. Pieter ter Keurs…
By John Hanna On the 4 th of August a massive explosion took place in the port of Beirut. The preliminary investigations pointed out to 2,750 tons of ammonium…
Prof. Pieter ter Keurs, LDE Centre for Global Heritage and Development, argues for thorough research into the origin of objects in the restitution policy. The…
On December 2nd 2019, Pieter ter Keurs, Professor of Museums, Collections and Society (Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Archaeology) and Academic Director…
A report (in Dutch) of the visit of the ICOMOS-Shared Heritage group with researchers from the Centre for Global Heritage and Development to the Royal Museum…
A report by student reporter Emy Theuws On Friday 11 October, the workshop on “The Stigma of ‘Underdevelopment’ in Heritage Production” took place in the…
Evelien Campfens (Grotius Centre, Leiden University) will join Dominique Ngan-Tillard (Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, TU Delft) as research…
ICOMOS is an international non-governmental organisation committed to the conservation of cultural heritage. ICOMOS Netherlands and the Centre for Global…
The Centre for Global Heritage and Development, together with Utrecht University, Free University Amsterdam and Amsterdam University Press introduce the online…
