Netherlands

Key contacts are listed under the following headings:

All (i.e. covering all or most cultural areas)
Heritage (archaeology, archives, conservation, man-made heritage, museums)
Media (advertising, broadcasting, digital media, film & video, newspapers & magazines, TV & radio)
Performing (dance, music, opera, puppetry, theatre)
Visual (architecture, crafts, design, galleries & art museums, photography, resources for artists)
Words (books & reading, language, libraries, resources for writers)
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All

General

SICA (Service Center for International Cultural Activities) +EN

Government

Ministry of Education, Culture and Science +EN

Centre of Marketing Communication

Heritage

All

Dutch Digital Heritage Association (DEN)

Instituut Collectie Nederland (ICN) (Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage) +EN

Archaeology

Stichting voor de Nederlandse Archeologie (SNA)

Conservation

Belvedere (Institute for the Preservation and Development of Cultural sites and Landscapes)

Man-Made Heritage

Nationaal Contact Monumenten (NCM)

Museums

Art museums will be found under VISUAL

Nederland Museumland

Netherlands Museums Association

Media

All

union for arts and media

Broadcasting

Dutch Public Broadcasting Organisations

Mediapark, Studiocentrum +EN

Digital & New Media

Netherlands Media Art Institute +EN

Film & Video

www.hollandfilm.nl +EN

Maurits Binger Film Institute

Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie +EN

TV & Radio

Radio Netherlands +EN

Performing

Dance

Association of Dutch Dance Companies +EN

DOD (Branch organisation for dance) +EN

Education & Courses

Radboud University Nijmegen (Comparative Arts and Cultural Studies) +EN

Utrecht School of the Arts +EN

Music

Netherlands Music Centre +EN

Dutch rock and pop institute +EN

Association of Dutch Orchestras

Dutch Jazz Connection +EN

Dutch National Institute for Choral Singing

KNTV (Royal Netherlands Musicians Union)

Centre for contemporary music +EN

Theatre

Dutch Association of Theatre Companies and Theatre Production Companies

Theater Instituut Nederland +EN

Visual

All

Netherlands Institute for Art History +EN

Piet Zwart Institute (Institute for postgraduate studies and research, Willem de Kooning Academy, Hogeschool Rotterdam) +EN

Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (Institute for artists who want to develop themselves further and strive for deepening, broadening and accelerating their art practice)

Jan van Eyck Academie
A post-academic institute for research and production in the field of arts, design and theory. Candidates who are selected receive a monthly stipend