The research project 'Exploring New Futures for Indonesian Objects' seeks to investigate continuing colonial frameworks of knowledge about cultural objects and their histories and explore new frameworks to research and knowledge of cultural objects collected in colonial situations. Objects looted as war booty from the Cakranegara palace in Lombok, Indonesia, in 1894 serves to investigate the dynamics of the existing historical framework through an analysis of language, discourse, and historiography in both countries. The research will explore objects of the Lombok war booty as windows through which memories and histories of their original values and meanings can be viewed.