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Foundation for Exploration and Conservation
of Monuments of the Dutch West India Company
MoWIC is a NGO
founded in the year 2000 at Amsterdam, the
Netherlands. Its aims are the research on
and the conservation of the cultural
heritage of the former Geoctroyeerde
West-Indische
Compagnie (1621-1675) en van de
Tweede West-Indische Compagnie (1675-1792),
together known by the name
Dutch West India Company,
the
WIC.
SHARED
CULTURAL HERITAGE
The predicate ‘monument’ means all objects
of the SHARED CULTURAL HERITAGE, in Dutch:
Gemeenschappelijk Cultureel Erfgoed (GCE).
This concerns all that has been left in
former colonies and territories with Dutch
historical influences.
Beside architecture, there are for instance
atlases, paintings and documents, furniture
and instruments, but also music, dance and
literature. Similar to the Dutch Department
of Monument Care and the
Rijksdienst voor
Archeologie, Cultuurlandschap en Monumenten
(RACM), protecting urban centres,
MoWIC tries to protect landscapes that had a
characteristic role in history. Therefore we
speak of tangible and
intangible cultural heritage.
For organizing reasons and the
Commemoration of the
500 year discovery jubilee of Brazil in 2000,
the MoWIC projects started with
Fort Orange in
Brazil. But there are some interesting
contacts and possible projects in the
Caribbean territory, like the
Synagogue in Sint
Eustatius, Ston Oso in Surinam,
(British) Guyana, and the
Tolerance Park in
New-York City, North-America.
Chamber of
Commerce Amsterdam: 34 14 20 22
Bank: ABN-AMRO Bank B.V., Vijzelstraat
Amsterdam
account number: 58.02.07-714 of ‘Stichting Monuments of the Dutch West
India Company’ |
