On Friday 9 June, the Amsterdam Museum is organizing the symposium ‘The dioramas of Rita Maasdamme: meaning and future of an exceptional collection’.

The purpose of the symposium is to safeguard an important part of the collection in the Netherlands. Where will Rita Maasdamme’s life’s work best come into its own? And what can we learn from her imagination of the colonial and slavery past?

Speaking in the program are, among others, family members Bianca Maasdamme, Peggy Reiziger and Britha Reiziger and experts Annemarie de Wildt (curator of the Amsterdam Museum), Danielle Kuijten (Imagine IC), Inez Blanca van der Scheer (curator of the exhibition The Maasdamme Collection: Scenes from the colonial past), Peggy Brandon (master of the Slavery Museum), Kitty Zijlmans (Leiden University), Marco van Baalen (director of the Intangible Heritage Knowledge Center) and Dieuwertje Wijsmuller.

The exhibition and symposium are organized in collaboration with Imagine IC and the Maasdamme family.

Symposium ‘The dioramas of Rita Maasdamme: meaning and future of an exceptional collection’, June 9, 13:00 to 18:30, Amsterdam Museum, Amstel 51, admission free