Caribbean guilder becomes legal tender in Curaçao and Sint Maarten

At the request of the United States and the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of Texas, the Dutch government decided to return seven objects from the national collection. The objects had been taken in the late...

Indonesia’s National Museum opened an exhibition of cultural objects repatriated under the 2022 agreement with the Netherlands. Public display placed the returned heritage within Indonesian...

The government reported on the memorial year, community grant schemes, research and other recognition measures. The program continued through 2027, but critics maintained that state-funded projects...

The Dutch government agreed to return 119 objects looted during the 1897 British invasion of Benin City, including objects held by state and Rotterdam collections. Nigerian claims and provenance...

A Pueblo delegation received seven objects, including a sacred winter drum, in a return ceremony at Wereldmuseum Leiden. The return answered a long-running community claim and recognized that...

The objects were formally handed over at Lagos’s National Museum after the Netherlands recognized that they had been looted in 1897. The return was described as the largest physical return of Benin...

The state published grant arrangements for initiatives in the European Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. The allocation made some resources available for community-led work, while the...

Community organizations could apply for support to strengthen their work on the history and effects of slavery. The scheme recognized descendants and grassroots organizations as participants in public...

The Dutch government accepted an independent committee recommendation to return more than 28,000 fossils excavated in colonial-era Indonesia by Eugène Dubois. The committee found that the collection...

The treaty was formally published in the Netherlands’ Treaty Gazette. It records Curaçao’s associate status and grants participation in selected CARICOM bodies and programs, while reserving...