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Military Heritage Activities

 

Australian-Dutch Heritage Day in The Hague

 

Duration: 2012

Status: Complete

Partners: Australian Embassy to the Netherlands, National Museum of Ethnology (Museum Volkenkunde)

 

CIE in collaboration with the Australian Embassy and the Museum Volkenkunde organised a Heritage Day in the Hague on the 14th June 2012. This was held as a continuation of the Heritage Days in Frementle. The joint outcomes of both events present an overview of the Australian-Dutch heritage field, which was followed by a third meeting in Canberra on the 1st November 2012. This meeting had a specific focus on Military Heritage ties and was intended to serve as a counterpart networking initiative as well as building upon the previous Heritage Days. 

 

Read the official report (here)

 

 

Left: Image of the participants listening to one of the key speakers at the Heritage Day in the Australian Embassy in The Hague. 

Right: Participants signing in to take part. 

CIE was inducted by UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova as an international NGO working in official relations with UNESCO. CIE was granted UNESCO collaboration and consulation accreditation to work with the Convention for the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage 2001.

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