From –20 to one floor up On 29 April our head of collections Huib Akihary reported, under the title ‘Cold turkey in the depot’, on the freezing at -20 °C of one of the birds of paradise from our museum collection. How that went and what else is happening in the museum depot you can read in this blog. Collection and archive News
Moluccans in sound & vision On Friday 29 September 2023, Museum Maluku, Moluccan Archive and Sound & Vision are holding a unique evening full of Moluccan audiovisual material and heritage. Collection and archive Language and heritage News
Tobelo North Moluccas in images On 19 April 2023 Museum Maluku received a special donation from Prof. Dr Jos Platenkamp. In 1979, 1980 and 1982 Platenkamp stayed for extended periods in the village of Paca in the Tobelo region of the North Moluccas to research the social structures and cosmology within this Tobelo community. Collection and archive Moluccan community News Residential camps
11 June 1977 – De Punt Today Museum Maluku commemorates the events of 11 June 1977 by showing a number of objects from its own museum collection and two objects currently on display at fellow museums. Collection and archive Commemoration and monuments News
Mondays among the archive collection Data & Collections Archivist Caro Matulessya can often be found on Mondays in our archive space in Rotterdam. What does she do there? Caro takes you along. Collection and archive News
Cold turkey in the depot The Museum Maluku collection team is busy assessing and cleaning the museum collection in the depot. What exactly are they doing there? Curator Huib Akihary gives you an update. Collection and archive News
Three remarkable donations Over the past months Museum Maluku has received some fine donations. Curator Huib Akihary talks about three of them. Collection and archive News
Inspection & relocation of the museum collection The inspection and relocation of the Museum Maluku collection are in full swing. The collection will be stored responsibly in not one but two (!) new depots. Curator Huib Akihary tells you more about it in his column. Collection and archive News
Moluccan Archive x Museum Maluku One photograph says more than a thousand words. Museum Maluku is proud to announce its collaboration with Moluccan Archive. Together we are joining forces to share the story behind a photograph and to expand both photographic collections. We talked with the driving force behind the Instagram account, Talita Talaksuru. Collaboration Collection and archive News Oral history
Help build our new archive space Museum Maluku has an extra workspace in Rotterdam-Zuid. This will become our archive space: an extra room that will serve for preparing the archive collection so that it can be digitised. But before we can actually start work, we need your help. Help build the museum and support us with time, money or goods. Collection and archive News
A collection shaped by donations When a gift is taken into the collection, it becomes part of the great museum heritage of the Moluccas. That secures those gifts for the future. Our museum's task is to manage this heritage with great care for the generations to come. Collection and archive Column Language and heritage Moluccan community News
Daylight after years Junior curator Reïnda Hully shares his experience of looking through and assessing the Museum Maluku collection. Collection and archive Column News
