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Donate Your Treasures – Erfstukken
If your kids don’t appreciate the traditional Dutch treasures you brought with you, don’t let them take things to the tip, or sell stuff for a pittance at Salvation Army shops. Put your most cherished possessions on display in the Dutch Connection! Donate it now, before you forget!
We’re interested in anything typically Dutch.
- High value, or unique items. We’ve come across a familie bijbel from the 1600s, for example, and ancient glas in lood church windows. Perhaps you have a sculpture or a painting – een beeldje of een schilderij? (Een Rembrandt zou mooi zijn…)
- Personal items that tell your story. We would like to collect your Alien Pass, diaries or dagboeken, photo albums, or correspondence with home. Ask them in NL, if they still have your original letters or briefwisselingen!
- Common items. Originele dingetjes die u meebracht voor huiskamer en keuken – misschien een vergiet, of een tafelkleed, of….
- Travel items. Things you brought on your journey – by ship or plane. Anything that shows how we travelled to NZ, back in the day...
- Anything out of the ordinary. For example, we’ve been gifted mooi borduurwerk and a set of 20 magnificent klederdracht traditional costumes and jewellery, from the various Dutch provinces.
Huiskamer en Keuken
We want to show everybody how we lived, when we first arrived in the 50s and 60s. One thing Kiwis always tell us, is how they’d visit the Dutch family down the road and they’d step into another world, with carpets on the table and… Let’s recreate those scenes.
We are looking for items that can you would find in a typical Huiskamer en Keuken (living room and kitchen). It could be a matteklopper, of een schilderijtje. We already have a piano, een wieg, koperwaar, keulse potjes, en zilveren theelepeltjes. But we need much more!
Spullen uit uw Scheepshut
We will also re-create in our Museum a typical hut or cabin from one of the ocean liners that brought 10,000s of Dutch migrants here (like on the Zuiderkruis – we hope to make it rock). If you have anything left from your trip – for example an old suitcase or hutkoffer, or clothes, or pyjamas, or a bruidsjurk (bridal gown) or your favourite doll? Let’s put it on display to make our stories come alive!
Please donate your items. Don’t forget to make it formal. Include us in your will, for later. Or gift it now!