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INVITATIONAL CONVERSATION | 26 November, 2025 | 11.00 - 13.00 | Studio, Wereldmuseum AmsterdamThe Research Center for Material Culture, in collaboration with...

Ilaria Obata (she/her) does arts-based programming and online communications at the RCMC and holds an MA in Curating Art and Cultures from the University of...

Dr. Daan Kok is Curator Japan and Korea at the Wereldmuseum.

Prof. dr. Wayne Modest is the Director of Content, Wereldmuseum, head of the Research Center for Material Culture, and Professor (by special appointment) of...

Featuring surprises and appearances by Dana Reilly Frances Campani John Turner Jeffrey Crowley Moderna Curated by Jacob Ford. Research by Isabel O’Leary....

Dr. Fanny Wonu Veys is Curator Oceania at the Wereldmuseum and professor by special appointment ‘Arts and Material Culture of Oceania’ at Leiden University.

At the RCMC, the flagship research institute of the Wereldmuseum, we have always been oriented toward the future. Our work is committed to contributing to the...

Every year the Research Center for Material Culture invites a number of research fellows based in the Net

Dr. Annette Schmidt is Curator Africa at the Wereldmuseum.

Material Girls offers a fresh approach to discussing pop culture of the past and present

Dr. Erna Lilje is Curator Indigenous knowledge & material culture at the Wereldmuseum.Portrait: Erna Lilje by Nick Saffell 2018

PUBLIC EVENT | November 25, 2025 | 10.30 - 12.00 | Gerbrandszaal, Wereldmuseum LeidenFor this public event, the Research Center for Material Culture and the...

Araceli Rojas is the Curator for the Americas collection at the Wereldmuseum.

Wouter Welling is Curator Contemporary Art at the Wereldmuseum.

Research Center for Material CultureThe Research Center for Material Culture (RCMC) is the flags

Valeria Posada Villada is a historian and curator specializing in photography and the arts of Abya Yala (the Americas). She is currently Curator of Photography...

Dr. Priya Swamy is Curator Globalization and South Asia at the Wereldmuseum.

Juliette Huygen was the research assistant of Wayne Modest, they managed the Research Center for Material Culture's communications and worked on the...

Tom Quist works as a provenance researcher on the Indonesian collections of the Wereldmuseum. 

Dr. Willemijn van Noord is Curator China at the Wereldmuseum. Her main research interests are Chinese art and material culture within global history, the role...

Olombi Bois (she/her) is currently a production and research assistant at the Research Center for Material Culture.

Oct 28, 2024 - Up to 10 full-tuition fellowships and more than 50 merit scholarships are available for graduate students at the Michigan school.

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Drs. Daan van Dartel is Curator Popular Culture and Fashion at the Wereldmuseum. 

Our research themes are chosen in relation to the urgent questions emerging from society in relat

Dr. Carine Zaayman (she/her) is a Researcher and Research Coordinator at the RCMC/Wereldmuseum. 

Unearth new answers to age-old questions

Please find below our upcoming public events, and our archived past events. 

Rita Ouedraogo Rita Ouédraogo was the RCMC's Research Programmer and (Community) Collaboration officer with an interest in African diaspora,...

Wendeline Flores is the Curator for Caribbean Culture and Colonial Histories at the Wereldmuseum and (vice) chair of the National Institute for the Study of...

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Ninja Rijnks-Kleikamp was the Coordinator of the Research Center for Material Culture