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MACCH researchers develop interdisciplinary and collaborative research projects around one or more the following themes:

  • Arts & Heritage in the Making - to examine the processes that turn cultural objects and practices into heritage
  • Valorising Arts & Heritage-  to critically assess how and for whom its values come about 
  • Participation and Presentation - to enhance novel ways of user engagement and participatory presentations 
  • Art Market, Law and Policy - to investigate legal, economic and policy frameworks in arts and heritage 
  • Artistic Research - to bring together methodologies and practices from the arts and sciences 

Current Projects

  • BetterThanGold

    Better than Gold: Art in Storage and the Making of Financial Value

    Interdisciplinary research project studies new types art-storage-spaces and their implications for global relations between art and finance.

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  • Lacunae

    Research network LACUNAE

    The LACUNAE (LAsting Legacies: Contemporary Artists’ Estates Between PUblic Heritage and Private Inheritance) research network aims to explore how emerging networks of care for contemporary artists’ estates can better involve marginalized artists and their communities in co-constructing lasting legacies.

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  • SocialHistoryoftheLandscape_SHCL

    Social History of the Landscape

    For many years, the SHCL has been engaged in the history of agriculture, industry and historical demography within a long-term perspective. Recently SHCL has expanded its focus to include the social history of the landscape. This entails a dedicated study of the interaction between people and their environment over time. 

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  • CurrentProjects_Drapo

    DRAPO

    DRAPO is an ongoing project aimed at digitizing and unlocking association banners, a reflection of Limburg's society documented in collections from museums, archives, libraries, and associations. Members and partners of the Heritage Cooperative Limburg (CEL) are dedicated to preserving this rich assembly of publications and objects for the future. 

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  • CurrentProject_LetterheadProject

    Limburg Letterhead Project

    A dynamic Linked Open Dataset of digitized historical letterheads kept in the archives of the Centre for the Social History of Limburg (SHCL), regional archive of Limburg (HCL) as well as those of municipal heritage associations and local archives. After establishing procedures for digitizing and describing letterheads, the project aims to systematically incorporate the letterhead collections of other archival institutions. 

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  • CurrentProjects_GLiM

    GLiM

     The GLiM Project (Stained Glass Art and the Limburg Mines) primarily focuses on cataloging mining windows in Limburg

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  • Pr

    Priceless

    Crimes involving high-value unique goods, such as luxury items and works of art have evolved significantly: as opposed to forgery or theft, criminals now exploit luxury items by turning them into financial assets which are then used for laundering wealth, obscuring transactions and evading sanctions. To unpack how this process works and can be prevented, PRICELESS has been launched under the leadership of Dr Christoph Rausch. The project hones in on every part of the process: from research into assetisation and value-appraisal processes, the related legal frameworks and insurance practices, to adapting innovative technologies for intelligence sharing, to devising solutions for more robust standards and regulation. 

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  • Pure3D

    PURE3D

    The world has moved online, with entire repositories, archives and cultures now in the digital realm. PURE3D is a groundbreaking initiative that addresses challenges those working in Digital Humanities are currently facing by developing access infrastructure for viewing interactive Digital Heritage and Digital Humanities 3D content online. This project enables users to integrate multiple types of source material, and document the creation process, while providing them with direct access to the modelling and interpretative choices creating a multimodal resource impossible to replicate in print form. The PURE3D platform also acts as a repository for projects, developing conceptual and methodological frameworks for evaluating 3D scholarship, making 3D scholarship more accessible and meaningful for researchers, scholars, students and the general public. 

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  • RivierAtelier

    Rivier Atelier

    Rivier Atelier is a newly funded research initiative by the Rijksdienst voor Cultureel Erfgoed and the Province of Limburg in collaboration with Natuurmonumenten, led by MACCH researchers Christian Ernsten and Claartje Rasterhoff. The project seeks to formulate nuanced landscape visions and heritage management strategies in response to the impact of climate change on watermill landscapes. Between 2023 and 2025, this initiative employs historical, archaeological and design research to examine the Geul River and its surrounding vicinities’ watermill landscapes. It aims to do so in a participatory process that unites local stakeholders such as farmers, residents and entrepreneurs, with archaeologists, designers, ecologists, geographers and historians.

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  • Projects_TraffickingTransformations

    Trafficking Transformations (2020–2024)

    This project draws upon the multidisciplinary collaboration of MACCH and combines methodologies from criminology and arts research to understand the trafficking networks related to the movement of illicit antiquities, fossils, and collectable wildlife. 

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  • merian

    MERIAN

    MERIAN is a space for collaborative research in between making and thinking. PhD candidates engage in innovative styles of research, utilizing the powers and fragilities of artistic and scientific practices. Their research addresses urgent matters of societal concern apparent in the Meuse-Rhine Euregion. 

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  • PERCol

    PERCOL

    In the NWO-funded Pervserse Collections (PERCOL) project, Dr. Eliza Steinbock addresses concerns regarding Europe’s LGBTQ+ archives, asking: What is preserved by whom and why? How have these marginalised and often persecuted communities managed to preserve their own history? What can we learn about how to preserve history, categorise it and make it accessible and relevant?

     

     

     

     

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  • CriticalVisitor

    The Critical Visitor

    The Dutch heritage and culture sector’s recent commitments to diversity, inclusivity and accessibility are already in place with initiatives such as the national Cultural Diversity Code and the Museum Association's recent focus on "connection and inclusivity". However, a need to develop more cohesive strategies and protocols is required. 

    In this context, the NWO-funded Critical Visitor project led by Eliza Steinbock brings together fifteen consortium partners to spearhead this transformative endeavour. It adopts an intersectional approach, recognising the interconnectedness of identity axes like disability, gender, sexuality, race, and coloniality in shaping inclusion and exclusion mechanisms.

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  • ReshapingCollectible

    Reshaping the Collectible: When Artworks Live in the Museum

    In October 2018, Dirk van de Leemput started his collaborative PhD project with Tate, London. Since the 1960s artists have been using a range of media technologies to create art. These artworks are dependent on these technologies and their associated networks of people, materials and skills, not only for their production but also for their on-going display and access. 

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