Colonial Collections Consortium

The Colonial Collections Consortium is a partnership between five organisations in the Netherlands: Museum Bronbeek, NIOD, Cultural Heritage Agency, Rijksmuseum and Wereldmuseum.

The consortium supports institutions administering collections in provenance research by sharing knowledge, answering questions and providing stakeholders with a network.

Goals
The Consortium was established in 2022 with the following four objectives:
- Support the implementation of the Dutch restitution policy by sharing knowledge and expertise about collections obtained in a colonial context
- Support collection managers in the Netherlands in the process of provenance research of collections from a colonial context.
- Support and facilitate provenance research and (public) accessibility of these collections.
- To be a central point of contact and information desk for countries of origin for questions about collections from a colonial context and provenance research in the Netherlands.