We are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for further collaboration with the LDE Centre for Global Heritage and Development. CGHD is a collaborative enterprise of Delft University of Technology, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Leiden University. It focuses on the question how heritage relates to cultural, social and environmental developments and decisions.

Woman's mola (blouse) from Panama, with a large appliqué with the number 25, marking the San Blas uprising of the Kuna people, in February 1925 (TRC 2014.0458).

In general terms, cooperation will cover the following fields: the setting up of joint research projects and joint publications; organising joint educational and cultural activities; exchange and support of students; exchange of faculty and/or other staff.

The MoU reflects a growing interest from the side of various academic centres for museum and heritage studies in the practical opportunities offered by the TRC for training students and others and for working 'hands on' with actual objects from the extensive TRC Collection.

The MoU was signed on behalf of the TRC by Dr Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood, Director, and on behalf of CGHD by Prof. Pieter ter Keurs, Director.