First application round opens for slavery-past community grants

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 two Caribbean countries introduced a shared currency through their monetary union. Currency issuance is a marker of institutional cooperation and local decision-making, while the islands remain...

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...

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...

The UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 80/250 on the transatlantic trafficking and racialized enslavement of Africans. The declaration renewed international debate about historical...

Following advice from the Colonial Collections Committee, the Netherlands signed an agreement to return two objects from the Wereldmuseum collection to Indonesia. One was seized by Dutch forces...

The Royal Collections announced completion of research into the legality and ethics of objects with colonial origins. Examples included a weapon taken after Dutch soldiers killed Lampung ruler Raden...