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The ancient contraceptive is probably made from a sheep's appendix and may be a souvenir from a brothel -- of which only two known copies exist, the museum said in a statement. "It shows that ...

A world-famous Dutch museum has bought a 200-year-old decorated condom, and will display it as part of an exhibition on sex in the 19th century. The historic contraceptive, likely to have been ...

Clad in protective blue surgical gloves, a Dutch museum worker gingerly unhooks a precious decorative artefact before gently laying it down on a pillow and wrapping it in dozens of layers of ...

The museum in Leiden has also restored hundreds of pieces of colonial loot to Indonesia, a former Dutch colony, Mexico and a community in the United States. Van Bommel said they had struck a deal ...

This Kings and Generals documentary covers the Dutch colonization of Indonesia—from the early trading ventures of the VOC to the violent military campaigns and treaties that cemented control.

The director of the Mauritshuis museum in the Netherlands said the Trump administration’s proposed funding cuts to exhibitions have caused the team to reconsider loaning art to the United States.

A new book by a Dutch historian has revealed that Christian pastors and priests not only justified the colonial war with Indonesia, but also remained silent about war crimes. Koos-Jan de Jager’s ...