DNB awards €355,000 for slavery-history exhibition on Sint Eustatius
DNB has awarded a one-off €355,000 grant for a permanent exhibition on slavery’s history at Museum Fort Oranje on Sint Eustatius, alongside educational activities.
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De Nederlandsche Bank is giving €355,000 to a project on Sint Eustatius to create a permanent museum display about the island’s history of slavery and its place in the transatlantic slave trade. The project will also develop educational activities for residents, school pupils and visitors.
The display will be housed at Museum Fort Oranje, in the island’s historic lower town. DNB says the project is run by Statia Foundation 2026.
DNB says it made the one-off grant under a €5 million programme for education, awareness-raising and the preservation of historical heritage. The bank launched the programme after its then president, Klaas Knot, apologised on its behalf in 2022 for DNB’s role in the transatlantic history of slavery.
The bank says it has previously made grants to projects in Aruba, Curaçao, Saba, Suriname and the Netherlands. Separately, it established the DNB Fund with the Cultuurfonds to support local initiatives addressing the continuing effects of slavery’s legacy on descendants.
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