Next week, Mr. Ronald Plasterk, the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science will probably announce his decision concerning the future location of a new museum of Dutch National History. Last month the Service Centre for International Cultural Activities (SICA) and the Netherlands Museum Association together organized a expert meeting to discuss this rather controversial issue. Several foreign museum experts joined their Dutch colleagues and together they concluded that if the government decides to create such a museum, it should be realised in a physical building rather than as a virtual experience. But the panel couldn’t resolve the widespread dispute in the Netherlands about whether this building should be erected in Amsterdam, The Hague or Arnhem (in the eastern part of the Netherlands).

Download the minutes of the meeting (May 23, 2007: An International Perspective on the Dutch National History Museum)

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