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Learning, sharing and connecting in Drenthe

Earlier this month we swapped our workplaces in The Hague and Rotterdam for a day in the far north. In and around Assen we visited three heritage institutions, each connected in its own way to Moluccan heritage: the Westerbork Memorial Centre, the Drents Archief and the Drents Museum.

Collection and archive Language and heritage Nieuws Residential camps

26 Oct 2025 Redactie 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 Nieuws Residential camps

28 Jun 2023 Huib Akihary Collection

Festive conclusion of project Wyldemerck

On Saturday 17 June 2023 the results of the archaeology project ‘Wyldemerck: searching together for barracks in the woods’ were presented at Museum Sophiahof. After a remarkable period of research with field inspections and excavations, participants, former residents and others interested in (project) Wyldemerck came together for a festive conclusion with music and dance.

Music and performance Nieuws Residential camps Wyldemerck

27 Jun 2023 Redactie News

Update Project Wyldemerck

On Saturday 14 May 2022 the kick-off meeting of Project Wyldemerck took place at Museum Sophiahof. More than six months have now passed. The project has made a name for itself within archaeological circles in the Netherlands and is increasingly carried by the former residents of the Wyldemerck camp.

Nieuws Residential camps Wyldemerck

8 Dec 2022 Redactie News

Wyldemerck wins the Grote Archeologie Prijs 2022

The archaeology project ‘Wyldemerck, searching together for barracks in the woods’, in which former residents of the Moluccan camp actively participate, has won the Dutch Grote Archeologie Prijs.

Nieuws Residential camps Wyldemerck

30 Oct 2022 Huib Akihary News

Archaeological research at Wyldemerck

After earlier field inspections, the moment had finally come: on Sunday 25 September the former Moluccan residents of the Wyldemerck camp were able to carry out archaeological research into their former home themselves.

Nieuws Residential camps Wyldemerck

29 Sept 2022 Huib Akihary Interviews

Searching for barracks together

On Saturday 11 June a bus full of former residents of the Wyldemerck camp travelled from Waalwijk, via Ridderkerk, to Friesland. The aim of the day was a field inspection. Curator Huib Akihary came along and gives a short report.

Nieuws Residential camps Wyldemerck

25 Jun 2022 Huib Akihary Interviews

Project Wyldemerck

In 2022 Museum Maluku is working with Moluks Erfgoed on the archaeology project ‘Wyldemerck: searching together for barracks in the woods’.

Language and heritage Nieuws Residential camps Wyldemerck

6 Apr 2022 Redactie Interviews

Stowaway on the Goya

A bachelor and a stowaway on the Goya. A promise to your mother. Read how everything worked out for Albertus Haulussy and the Akerina family.

Arrival in the Netherlands Nieuws Residential camps

14 Jun 2020 Huib Akihary Interviews

563 children on the Skaubryn

The Skaubryn had left Surabaya on 14 April. On board were 1,198 Moluccans, among them 9 Moluccan navy men and 563 children.

Arrival in the Netherlands Nieuws Residential camps

9 May 2020 Huib Akihary Interviews

‘Barak 85 kamer 10’ on a traumatic childhood in the Schattenberg camp

After the success of ‘Njonja’, Dinah Marijanan presented her second book on 16 November. It is on sale in our museum shop for 17.95.

Nieuws Residential camps

21 Nov 2019 Redactie News

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