Do you work in the cultural or creative sector and did you or your organisation take part in international cultural activities or projects in 2025? Let us know!

On 25 November 2025, Suriname became independent from the Netherlands. Around this milestone, many cultural events are being organised in both countries.

Now online: a living archive of resilience, amplifying Ukrainian voices and Dutch solidarity with the Ukrainian cultural sector.

DutchCulture's new publication has arrived reflecting on the inspiring work supported by the Matching Fund over the past four years.

On 1 November 2023, the exhibition ‘Australia and the Netherlands. People Movement Stories’ opened at the National Archives of the Netherlands in The Hague.

The award winning IDFA documentary 'Selling a Colonial War’, supported by the Matching Fund, shows in Dutch cinemas as of 11 January 2024.

The stories of Surinamese-Amsterdamse and Amsterdamse-Surinamese families on exhibition in Amsterdam and Paramaribo until 14 January.

Two new databases on slavery history of Aruba and Sint Eustatius have been launched online.

The National Archives of the Netherlands presented two copy stands to the Ukrainian embassy in The Hague to help preserve the country's history and culture.

Japanese architect Sutemi Horiguchi is on exhibition in Museum Het Schip in Amsterdam from 15 September.

She will start in her new position at the Amsterdam-based foundation on 1 October 2022.

With a contribution of DutchCulture’s Matching Fund the diary which architect Berlage kept during his travels around the Dutch East Indies comes back to life.

The National Archives of the Netherlands and the Surinaams Museum sign an agreement to digitize 19th century records.

Exploring development potentials of the Van Ostrande-Radliff House in Albany (New York) and Kinderdorp Neerbosch (Nijmegen).

We look at Dutch international cultural activities in 2021, and explore the road into a post-Covid world.

This year’s training will take place online, from 13 – 25 November 2022. Deadline for applications is 8 June 2022.

To intensify cultural cooperation, a Dutch delegation visited Morocco and a Moroccan delegation visited the Netherlands.

Kòrsou - Curaçao can be visited from December 16, 2021 to October 23, 2022 in the National Archives in The Hague.

On the 17th and 18th of March a delegation of the National Archives of India visited the Dutch National Archives in The Hague and Emmen.

This year’s course is tailored to port cities and their water challenges and is open to professionals from Morocco, Egypt, Turkey and the Netherlands.