• Establish a high quality, dynamic and thriving centre that proves its potential and that is financially self-sufficient and sustainable
  
• Create and manage a Museum Centre that is appealing to people from different social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and all age groups
  
• Unite Dutch community groups and organisations in support of the Museum Centre, by instilling a sense of national identity into the Dutch Connection and by providing Nederlanders with facilities that offer networking, participation, research and advocacy opportunities
• Organise and curate educational and innovative displays, exhibitions, activities, events, exchanges, entertainment and research that have a positive influence on perceptions about the Dutch presence in New Zealand, and migration issues in general - enhancing learning and understanding about these topics 
• Encourage the exchange of displays, ideas and individuals between the Netherlands and Aotearoa/New Zealand to strengthen existing connections and forge new ones, to enable improved collaboration between two nations

Our Approach
As beschermers or kaitiaki (guardians), we aim to preserve and research those objects, collections of art, and information that are important to the Dutch community - on their behalf - and hold them in trust and make them accessible to society.
We aim to be an important educational, cultural and recreational resource. Museums are places where New Zealanders and visitors identify, learn about and celebrate our national identity and its formation – centres of learning that contribute long term value to communities by contributing to our social, economic and cultural well-being and development.
We will follow the modern approach for museums and to provide civic and community spaces - gathering places for people to meet and spend time with families and friends and others. We will create a meeting ground for communities, and a museum building that provides spaces that are open, transparent and accessible to visitors and to the communities of which they are part.
We subscribe to the national Code of Ethics, as set out by Museums Aotearoa.