Brought to light: Indonesian Bronzes from Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde’s depot Nearly 300 Indonesian bronze treasures from Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde’s depot are on display. A testimony of merging cultures? Justus Schokkenbroek • July 10, 2020
Internship in Corona-times: My experience at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam In this blog I’d like to tell you about my internship at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam for modern and contemporary art during Corona-times Madelène Donkerwolke • July 07, 2020
Antiquities behind closed doors Always wondered what happens behind the closed doors of a museum that has closed because of corona virus? Museums around the world are thinking of creative ways to keep their collections available online but also think of new ways to improve the visitor’s experience once they reopen. Emma Verweij • June 03, 2020
An Ode to Social Media in Times of Crisis How do you remain active as a study association during the stay-at-home-times? Two words: Social Media. Explore how de L.K.V., a student-led association, transforms their activities from physical to digital. Liona Micajkov • May 11, 2020
Exhibition or haunted house?! In the course Curating Cultures students are asked to imagine how curators communicate specialist knowledge with a broader audience. Wakana Kaita shares her experience. Wakana Kaitani • May 01, 2020
Studying (art)history in Florence and Rome History student Sjoerd Ramackers went to Italy with the Minor Rome-Florence to study its art and history for four months. Sjoerd recounts his experience as a historian learning about art history and its methods on site in Rome and Florence. Sjoerd Ramackers • April 15, 2020
VAN EYCK 2020: OMG! I was there. A student recounts his visit to the Jan van Eyck-exhibition in Ghent, organised in honour of the Van Eyck Year 2020. The largest exhibition ever about the most famous and mysterious Early Netherlandish master! Justus Schokkenbroek • April 08, 2020
Paris Talks Four young French Fellows at the Art History Department at Leiden University present their research on seventeenth-century Dutch art and artists. Carole Fonticelli • April 06, 2020
Piet Hein & Porcelain as Pillars of the Dutch Republic? On 28 November 2019 Professor Claudia Swan (Northwestern University) gave a lecture entitled “Stately furnishing and prized possessions: exchange, piracy and collecting in the Golden Age.” She argued that the Dutch taste for porcelain influenced the formation of the young Dutch Republic. Margaret Storm • March 30, 2020
