The Slavery Remembrance Exhibition from Amsterdam’s renowned Rijksmuseum is on display at United Nations Headquarters.

Opening on 23 February 2023, “Slavery: Ten True Stories of Dutch Colonial Slavery” is a joint initiative from the UN's Outreach Programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery and the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations, in partnership with the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s national museum of art and history.

We wanted to show through this exhibition that this
history belongs to all of us”, explains Dr. Valika
Smeulders, curator of the exhibition and Head of
History at Rijksmuseum.

The month-long exhibition focuses on slavery in the Dutch colonial era, from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century — in Brazil, Suriname and the Caribbean, as well as in South Africa, Asia and the Netherlands itself.

It features 10 true personal stories of people who were enslaved, people who profited from the system of slavery and people who raised their voices against it.