A Decolonised Future
VENI Grant | Project Leader: Dr. Nour Munawar | 2023-2027. The victorious side in a war often employs heavy-handed means to re-write the (hi-)story of conflict. Diverging meanings are often inserted into ...
Funded Research Projects
Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture
The Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM) hosts a number of externally funded research projects, which are granted to staff members of the research school.
Projects overview
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Black Magic
NWO-NICAS Grant | Project Leader: Prof. Maarten van Bommel | 2024-. Museum De Lakenhal holds a unique collection of sample books (1690-1791), with hundreds of black wool samples produced in Leiden. The city followed ... -
CLARIAH Plus WP 5
NWO CLARIAH-PLUS | Principal Investigator: Prof. Julia Noordegraaf | 2019-2024. In CLARIAH Plus WP5 the 'Media Suite' is developed, a sustainable Dutch research infrastructure that supports mixed media scholarly ... -
Cleaning Modern Oil Paints (CMOP)
EU Heritage Plus | Project Leader: Prof. Klaas Jan van den Berg | 2015-2018 | PhD candidate in this project: Lise Steyn. Within the context of safeguarding tangible heritage for current and future generations, 20th- ... -
Community Archaeology in Rural Environments
NWO HERA-JPICH | Project Leader: Dr. Heleen van Londen | 2019-2024. The CARE-MSoC project studies how active participation of citizens in archaeological research can contribute to alleviate wider social challenges. ... -
Connecting Early European Medieval Collections (CEMEC)
EU Creative Europe| Project Leader: Prof. Wim Hupperetz | 2015-2021 | PhD candidates in this project: Inge Kalle-den Oudsten and Lindsay Morehouse. This project aims to provide a new business model for durable ... -
Critical Heritage Studies and the Future of Europe
H2020-MSCA-ITN | Project Leader: Prof. Rob van der Laarse | 2017-2021 | PhD candidates in this project: Vittoria Caradonna and Nermin Elsherif. CHEurope focuses on developing a new integrated theoretical and ... -
Cultural Heritage Analysis for New Generations (CHANGE)
H2020-MSCA-ITN | Principal Investigator: Prof. Rob Erdmann | 2019-2023 | PhD candidate in this project: Alessandra Marrocchesi. The combination of new technologies and the integration of conventional investigation ... -
DIGHT-Net
HORIZON-WIDERA | Principal Investigator: Prof. Ihab Saloul | 2024-2027. The objective of the DIGHT-Net is to enhance research capacity, broaden the research partnership and increase the visibility & attractiveness of ... -
Diaspora and Identity
NWO Open Competition | Project Leader: Prof. James Symonds | 2016-2022 | PhD candidates in this project: Jan Bakker and Marijn Stolk. This project focused on the evidence for material life, ethnicity, and diet in the ... -
Down to the Ground
NWO Open Competition | Project Leader: Dr. Maartje Stols-Witlox | 2019-2024 | PhD candidates in this project: Moorea Hall-Aquitania and Lieve d'Hont. In the five-year project 'Down to the Ground' art historians, ... -
Europa Ciceroniana
EU-Erasmus+ | Project Leader: Dr. Lidewij van Gils | 2023-2027. This project is a collaboration between seven Latinists working at six universities in five countries. With the financial support of the European Union ... -
Exploring New Futures for Indonesian Objects
NWO-Research into Collections with a Colonial Context | Project Leader: Prof. Ihab Saloul, with Dr. Bambang Purwanto of Gadjah Mada University | 2024-2028. Dutch museum collections may contain looted objects with a ... -
Ghosts of Solid Air
AHRC Follow-on-funding for Impact and Engagement Award | Project Leader: Dr. Colin Sterling, together with Prof. Rodney Harrison (UCL Institute of Archaeology) | 2021-. 'Ghosts of Solid Air' is an innovative public ... -
GoGreen
EU-HORIZON-RIA | Principal Investigator: Dr. Maartje Stols-Witlox | 2022-2026 | PhD candidate in this project: Han Zhou. Existing tools and methods to conserve heritage are not always sustainable. The GoGreen project ... -
HAICu
NWO | Principal Investigator: Prof. Julia Noordegraaf | 2024-2030 | PhD candidate in this project: Imogen Coulson. The NWO is providing 10.3 million euros for the HAICu project. This project deploys artificial ... -
Listening to the Colonial Past
VENI Grant | Project Leader: Dr. Emily Clark | 2023-2027. Sound recordings are increasingly being used as a source of knowledge about the past: in scientific research, in museum exhibits, and as collective and ... -
MOXY
EU-JPICH | Principal Investigator: Prof. Klaas Jan van den Berg | 2022-2026 | PhD candidate in this project: Catarina Nunes Aníbal Rocha Pires. MOXY aims to bring to fruition a radically new approach to the cleaning ... -
Mapping Transnational Conflict Heritage
VIDI Grant | Project Leader: Dr. Carolyn Birdsall | 2019-2024. This project studies radio archival collections in Europe during and after World War II, and studies the processes by which these collections were ... -
Master Class on Wax-Resin Linings
Getty Foundation Grant | Project Leader: Dr. Emilie Froment | 2019-2025. The 'Dutch Method Unfolded' is a masterclass that addresses the consequences of wax-resin lining for the today’s conservation and future ... -
Medievalism and Medieval Art in Surrealism
VENI Grant | Project Leader: Dr. Tessel Bauduin | 2015-2018. Throughout the previous century, the Middle Ages were repeatedly rediscovered, also by surrealists such as Dalí. -
New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art (NACCA)
EU-H2020-MSCA-ITN | Principal Investigator: Prof. Julia Noordegraaf | 2015-2019 | PhD candidates in this project: Dušan Barok, Marta Garcia Celma and Claudia Röck. New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary ... -
New Lights on Old Remedies
NWO Open Competition | Project Leader: Prof. James Symonds | 2022-2027 | PhD candidate in this project: Anja Fischer. This project will study changes in medicinal plant use in the Netherlands Low Countries in the ... -
Oral History, Stories at the Museum around Artworks (OH-Smart)
PDI-SSH | Project Leader: Dr. Sanneke Stigter | 2021-. 'Oral History – Stories at the Museum around Artworks' (OH-SMArt) is a long term initiative to significantly improve the digital research chain around using Oral ... -
PITCH
EU-HORIZON-Heritage | Principal Investigator: Dr. Colin Sterling | 2023-2027. Fossil fuels have a major – sometimes unnoticed – impact on our lives, culture and society: from the clothes we wear to how we get from a ... -
PREservation of PAintings in a Sustainable Future (PREPARE)
NWO-NICAS Grant | Project leader: Dr. Joen Hermans | 2024-. Like all of us, museums are faced with the need to reduce energy consumption. Widening indoor climate tolerances would have a big impact, but scientific ... -
Questioning Traumatic Heritage
H2020-MSCA-RISE | Project Leader: Prof. Ihab Saloul | 2018-2024. SPEME develops a joint program of exchanges between academic researchers - working on memory, trauma and heritage - and non-academic professionals - ... -
Site Sound
NWO PhD in the Humanities Grant | Project Leader: Prof. Vladimir Stissi | 2018-2023 | PhD candidate in this project: Pamela Jordan. The project 'Site Sound' uses acoustic site analysis and the latest in digital ... -
Time Machine
H2020-FETFLAG | Principal Investigator: Prof. Julia Noordegraaf | 2019-. Time Machine is aiming to join Europe’s rich past with up-to-date digital technologies and infrastructures, creating a collective digital ... -
Tracing the Potter’s Wheel
VIDI Grant | Project Leader: Dr. Jill Hilditch | 2017-2021 | PhD candidate in this project: Loes Opgenhaffen. Tracing the Potter's Wheel is a collaborative research project focusing on the Bronze Age Aegean and ... -
TwiXL
PDI-SSH | Project Leader: Prof. Julia Noordegraaf | 2020- | PhD candidate in this project: Sarah Burkhardt. TwiXL develops an infrastructure that enables SSH researchers to systematically examine current and emerging ...