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At Museum Maluku's archive, collection care is all about the details. From replacing silverfish traps to processing the final batch of digitised material.

In Eigen Woorden travels to Ambon. Discover how photographs of the first generation of Moluccans and the ULU KORA monument come together.

In Baku Dengar, archive, identity and memory come together in an exhibition that refuses to see history as something closed off. Numane's installation Buaya moves between the self and bodily expression. Through symbolism around the crocodile, the work explores themes such as resilience, transformation and the way history lodges itself in the body.

For decades, Sound & Vision has been the memory of the Dutch media. Thousands of hours of television, radio and digital material are stored in Hilversum. Fragments that together determine how the Netherlands sees, recognises and remembers itself. Among these images are also the stories of Moluccan communities: visible, but not always fully told.

Seventy-five years after the arrival of the first Moluccan families in the Netherlands, the story of the community in local politics is changing. At the coming municipal elections there are, unlike in previous years, relatively more Moluccans standing for a seat on the council. Their candidacy marks a next step: not only being present in the Netherlands, but also exerting influence on how it is governed.