The VOC heritage in Sri Lanka: The Dutch Burghers of Ceylon 1640 -2015
I. An Appeal from Nina Van Dort:
Dear Burghers, …….. Our team members will be in Melbourne from the 13th – 20th February 2014, Australia for 8 days collecting images. We are staying with Roger and Norreen Wright who are so kind to put up with us .Once again the team would like to ask your kind assistance , as we are on the look-out for more images which will be presented at the 2015 Burgher Heritage Exhibition in Amsterdam.
Since we equipped with a camera, scanner and gadgets, we have the capacity to scan photographs at your homes if desirable and/or feasible. Kindly spread the word around. My contact address is ninavandort@live.com.
· Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 2016
· Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2017
· Singapore city, Singapore in 2017
Thank you, Kind regards
NINA VAN DORT, Member of the Exhibition Committee & its Manager/Coordinator
- Amsterdam.Mobil 0031 6560 55 740
- committee@ceylon-dutch-burghers.com
- https://www.facebook.com/ceylondutchburgher.exhibition
II. The VOC heritage in Sri Lanka: The Dutch Burghers of Ceylon 1640 -2015
Associates:
Maritime Museum Amsterdam, Nederland
The Royal Tropical Museum: KIT, Amsterdam Nederland ,
The KITLV Leyden Koninklijk Instituut voor taal-, land, en volkenkunde
CBG, the Central Bureau voor Genealogy , Den Haag Nederland ,
National Archive Den Haag Nederland,
Malaysian Arkib Negara Kuala Lumpur Malaysia,
Colombo National Archive Sri Lanka
The State National Archive Bruges Flanders
The National Archives Tonier
The State National Archives of Antwerp
The National Archives Kew Richmond ,UK .
Dr.Roelof van Gelder [historian]
Drs. C.A. Martijn.Maarleveld [colonial & VOC historian]
Dr. Lodewijk Wagenaar [VOC Historian]
Drs. Jan van Rosmalen [KITLV Leyden]
Dr. Nonja Peters[ Historian Australia ]
Dr. Malcolm Budd Jansze [ MD]
Dr. Jean Gelman Taylor [Historian Australia]
Dr. K.D. Paranavitana. [Professor/ Historian Sri Lanka]
Dr Roelef van Gelder [Historian ]
Associates of the exhibition
– The Dutch Burgher Union ,Reid Avenue Colombo Sri Lanka.
– The Sri Lanka Embassy in Den Haag [Sri Lanka patron] Nederland
– The Malaysian Embassy in Den Haag, Nederland
– The Melbourne Burgher Association. Australia
– The Perth Burgher Association, Australia
– Brisbane Burgher Association, Australia
– The Sri Lanka- Netherland Stitching, Den Haag Nederland
– Malaysian -Netherland’s Association [VNM] Nederland
– Selangor Eurasian Association
– Malacca Portuguese Eurasian Association
– YMCA, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
– Sri Lanka Department of Culture .Colombo
– Austrian Embassy Den Haag Nederland.
– Victor Melder, Sri Lanka Library Melbourne, Australia
– Maria Moser : grafik, design / con:gas kreativteam Wien Osterreich
– Martin Luter Kerk Amsterdam : Reverend Andreas Woehler
::::https://www.facebook.com/ceylondutchburgher.exhibition
PS: and of course if you have specimens of 19th century etchings, of the calibre produced by JLK Van Dort, well, then, they will be snapped up. See for instance his caricature of Kandyan chiefs 
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