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The Batavia replica portico against a dark background, with the Batavia in the foreground

Stories

A display of traditional puppets

An ocean of ideas

The Castle of Batavia, by A. Beeckman 1661

Batavia in the East Indies

Inspecting the stern section of the Batavia timbers underwater, 1975

Batavia shipwreck

Pamor sang Pangeran

Repatriation

A map showing various Makassan routes of travel and trade

Sea crossings

Max Havelaar book on a dark background

The book that killed colonialism?

Dutch Ships in the Roads of Texel, with Gouden Leeuw, the Flagship of Cornelis Tromp, central, by L. Bakhuysen, 1671

VOC or Dutch East India Company

This exhibition is part of the ongoing challenge to the legacies of colonialism. By proposing a new way of understanding the significance of objects in our collections, museum curators in Australia and Indonesia, together, have creatively re-examined the interpretation of museum collections. Many objects and stories contained in this exhibition also illustrate the historic and contemporary connections and flows of people, ideas, and objects between Australia and Indonesia.

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