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Press releases

View the latest press releases from Wereldmuseum Amsterdam below. For press questions, please contact pers@wereldculturen.nl


More information about Our colonial inheritance can be found in the press kit.

Embracing All Prerna Dangi_Irene Yee_ladylockoff

Fashion exhibition SARI/STATEMENT opening 12 April

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Huisstijl

New name: Wereldmuseum

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Museum Volkenkunde

Colonial collections to be returned to Indonesia and Sri Lanka

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Someone is getting rich

Someone is getting rich - Press release

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Bicycle taxis, cars and a tram at the intersection in front of the office of the International Credit and Trade Association "Rotterdam". Surabaya, between 1953 and 1960. Photo: NMVW Collection

Wereldmuseum asks public to tag Indonesia photo collection

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Detail of decomposing dress by designer Scarlett Yang. Made of bioplastic. Photo: Scarlett Yang Design

Plastic Crush: Plastic dreams at Wereldmuseum Amsterdam

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Designer Jie Chen in the Wereldmuseum Amsterdam

Designers engage with collection in ‘Plastic Crush’ exhibition

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Flory Sinanduku performt SANTE PUBLIC, in plastic spuiten-pak in Kinshasa, Congo. Foto: Azgard Itambo

New exhibition Plastic Crush at Amsterdam Tropenmuseum

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Interactive monument with the names of enslaved people

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