Wereldmuseum Amsterdam and the Mondriaan Fund are organising a new edition of HERE: Heritage Reflections on 10 November. Do you work at a museum, archive, or heritage institution in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom? Or are you involved or interested in the heritage field in another way? Tickets are now on sale!

Programme
This edition focuses on the theme of restitution. Dr. Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba, Curator of African Arts at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (USA), and CATPC artists Ced’art Tamasala, Matthieu Kasiama, and Mbuku Kimpala will speak about the loan of the Balot sculpture, which temporarily returned to Lusanga, Congo, in 2024.

After this talk, several breakout sessions will take a deeper dive into various topics that heritage professionals encounter in the context of restitution cases.

In addition, there are two guided tours you can attend: one of the Unfinished Pasts exhibition, and another of the memorial altar, both currently on display at the Wereldmuseum Amsterdam.

With: Amal Alhaag (curator & researcher), Raul Balai (visual artist & curator), Marieke van Bommel (general director at Wereldmuseum), Dr. Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba (Curator of African Arts, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, United States), Camiel de Kom (Digital Heritage Coach at Colonial Collections Consortium), Sebastian Koudijzer (visual artist & curator), Eelco van der Lingen (director of the Mondriaan Fund), Leandro Matthews Cascon (research fellow at NIAS), Wayne Modest (content director at Wereldmuseum), Paul Wolff Mitchell (researcher, Pressing Matter), Manuwi C. Tokai (artist and initiator of the memorial altar), CATPC artists Ced’art Tamasala, Matthieu Kasiama and Mbuku Kimpala, Paul Voogt (curator at the Mission Museum Steyl), and Cindy Zalm (Head of Realisation at Wereldmuseum).