The Netherlands will embark on an ambitious new plan to repatriate artifacts removed from former colonies. “We must treat colonial collections with great sensitivity,” says Ingrid van Engelshoven, the minister of education. “There is no place in the Dutch State Collection for cultural heritage objects that were acquired through theft.”

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