Colonial Past

Dutch colonial history: trade, exploitation, cultural exchange, slavery

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Open this page on your mobile phone. The app will guide you step by step along these artworks in the museum.

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Copy the link and paste it to your phone — 1. Copy the link and paste it to your phone

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Visit your favourite works in the museum — 3. Visit your favourite works in the museum

3. Visit your favourite works in the museum

Colonial Past in the museum

1. Georg Sturm, Self sacrifice, 1885. Look up!

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2. Pieter Claesz, Still Life, 1627

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3. Johannes Vinckboons, Banda Neyra, ca. 1662-1663 (Hint: look up)

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4. Andries Beeckman, The Castle of Batavia, c. 1662

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5. H. van Schuylenburgh, Hooghly trading post, 1665

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6. England, Crown of Ardra, ca. 1664

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7. Frans Post, View of Olinda, 1662

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8. Legcuffs, Curaçao, c. 1700-1900

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9. Dirk Valkenburg, Plantation in Suriname, 1707

258
10. Frans van der Mijn, Jan Pranger, 1742

259
11. White Oliphant, 1755

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12. Kappa (cauldron), 1800-1850

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13. Abraham Salm, The Kemanglen Sugar Factory, 1870-1875

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14. Nicolaas Pieneman, Diepo Negoro, c. 1830-1835

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15. Isaac Israëls, KNIL Soldier, 1882

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16. Japan, Model of Deshima, 1850-1851

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17. Gerrit Schouten, Diorama of a dance party, 1830

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18. Marinus Hack, Man and Machine, c. 1913

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