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GroenLinks wants nonconformist museum

6 June 2007 - The National Historic Museum (NHM) should not slavishly conform to the canon of history, as minister Ronald Plasterk wants. GroenLinks council members argue for a museum with a nonconformist view of history.

In an open letter, Judith Sargentini, Maarten van der Meer and Marieke van Doorninck write: “The national debate seems to focus on the location and not the contents. GroenLinks is not inclined to make room for a clichéd national historic museum”.

According to GroenLinks, the museum should pay attention to the Guinee slave forts, Hollanditis, the polder model, and controversial Dutch figures including Mata Hari, Poncke Princen, Marinus van der Lubbe and Kenau Hasselaar.

Amsterdam is competing with The Hague and Arnhem for the NHM. The writers of the letter expect that Plasterk will not punish Amsterdam for submitting a self-willed plan, and if he does, the city will just have to live with that.

Illustration: Mata Hari (photo Studio Boyer / Wikipedia). See also: Let Arnhem have museum

 

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