01579nas a2200217   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003653001400044653001600058653002000074653004000094653002600134100001800160245013500178856015300313300001200466490000700478520085600485022002001341       2014                            d10aIndonesia10aNetherlands10aheritage theory10ainternational relations and museums10apost-colonial history1 aCynthia Scott00aSharing the divisions of the colonial past: an assessment of the Netherlands-Indonesia shared cultural heritage project, 2003-2006  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84894209688&doi=10.1080%2f13527258.2012.738239&partnerID=40&md5=a84eb16645622987067f9423643c2679  a181-1950 v203 aWhile recognised for advancing historical scholarship on collecting in the colonial Netherlands East Indies, the Netherlands-Indonesia Shared Cultural Heritage Project of 2003-2006 merits analysis in its own right as a heritage process. From the perspective of heritage studies theory, this article demonstrates how the project both illustrates and contradicts several influential conceptions of heritage. It also reveals that such heritage negotiations can benefit states dealing with the legacy of the colonial past in European museums, when they forgo competition in the interest of a workable consensus. However, the project also offers counterpoints and paradoxes connected to remembering and forgetting, between its orientation to the present and to the past, and in its relationship to the tangible and intangible heritage of Dutch colonialism.  a13527258 (ISSN)