Das Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam - In seiner Existenz bedroht?

Ich habe meinen Augen nicht getraut, als ich heute eine Aufforderung zur Unterzeichnung einer Petition zur Rettung des Tropenmuseums gelesen habe. Das Tropenmuseum? Eine der innovativen und inspirierenden europäischen Völkerkundemuseen?
Der der Petition beigefügte Text informiert über eine Art Ultimatum der Regierung: das Tropenmuseum möge sich mit dem Volkekundemuseum in Leiden und dem Africamuseum in Berg en Dal fusionieren, anderfalls werde es geschlossen. In zwei Jahren.
Es geht, wieder einmal, ums Sparen. Schon jetzt wurden dem Museum - und dem ebenso namhaften Forschungsinstitut -, drastisch die Mittel gekürzt. Es drohe der Verlsut der Hälfte der Arbeitsplätze und die Schließung der Forschungsbibliothek.
Betroffen wäre auch das, ebenso wie das Stammhaus bahnbrechende Tropenmuseum Junior.

Hier der Link zur Petition http://petities.nl/petitie/hou-het-tropenmuseum-open

Und hier der englischsprachige Aufruf zur Unterzeichnung der Petition:

Dear ICME Members and friends -
Amsterdam's Tropenmuseum (Museum of the Tropics) is one of Europe's leading ethnographic museums. Between its rich permanent collection, which reflects Dutch colonial history, and its vivid temporary exhibitions, visitors can glimpse the past, present and future of non-Western cultures around the globe. A visit to the Tropenmuseum is a journey through time and around the world. One gets to know widely different cultures and get an excellent impression of everyday live in the tropics. The museum accommodates eight permanent exhibitions and an ongoing series of temporary exhibitions, including both modern and traditional visual arts and photographic works. The museum's rooms, expertly guide people through Asia, Oceania, Africa and Latin America via authentic art, household and religious objects, photographs, music, film and interactive displays. The museum is also renowned for its efforts in child-friendly exhibitions. Tropenmuseum Junior offers an educational, inspiring and entertaining programme for kids (6 to 13 year olds), aimed at introducing them to different cultures.

As the public face of the Royal Tropical Institute, a foundation that sponsors the study of tropical cultures around the world, the Tropenmuseum is a grand institution, both inside and out. The museum was established in 1864 and it's beautiful brick building dates from 1926 and sits alongside the spacious greenery of Oosterpark. The Tropenmuseum is one of the most fascinating anthropological museums in the Netherlands, but is now in great danger.

URGENT please help the Tropenmuseum stay alive and open...- if it disappears nothing will ever be able to replace it !!

PLEASE SIGN before 30 June !!!

http://petities.nl/petitie/hou-het-tropenmuseum-open

Send this email also to other people who would be willing to participate in signing this important petition

Please read the following information regarding the Tropenmuseum's current plight and sign the petition as requested. On the agenda is a Dutch government decision to give the Tropenmuseum funds to survive another two years, after which the Tropenmuseum will be have to merge with the Volkenkunde Museum in Leiden and the Africa Museum in Berg en Dal. If this does not happen the museum will be closed down !

The KIT Library and research and Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam's ethnographic and multicultural museum, is being hit hard by budget cuts. Over half of the staff will lose their jobs and the research library, filled with one of a kind publications from around the globe dated from as early as 1400 AD, will simply shut down. We need 40,000 signatures Dutch or Worldwide, to put the Tropenmuseum back on the government agenda and to tell the government that the public is not okay with this closing down of this universal institution!

We need the signatures BEFORE 30 JUNE!

http://petities.nl/petitie/hou-het-tropenmuseum-open

For non dutch speakers, on the site: please fill in your first name and last name (Ik = Identity = put your name), city (Wonende te = City = put your city) and your email and send.

Then click on the confirmation link in the email you will receive after from the petition site

Please help us save the Tropenmuseum - if it disappears nothing will ever be able to replace it !!

Please forward this request for help to whom ever you think is interested.



Thank you