Nameless Heritage in a Dutch Warehouse

An archeologist from the National Archeological Research Center, Titi Surti Nastiti, has a list of Javanese inscriptions stored in museums across Europe, especially the Netherlandssix of them at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden; two at the Tropen Museum in Amsterdam; and another at the Maritime Museum in Rotterdam.

Tempo contributor and Amsterdam resident Yuke Mayaratih recently visited the three museums to confirm their existence.

May 5, 2015

An archeologist from the National Archeological Research Center, Titi Surti Nastiti, has a list of Javanese inscriptions stored in museums across Europe, especially the Netherlandssix of them at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden; two at the Tropen Museum in Amsterdam; and another at the Maritime Museum in Rotterdam.

Tempo contributor and Amsterdam resident Yuke Mayaratih recently visited the three museums to confirm their existence.

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