The exhibition Tourism in the Dutch East Indies, 1870-1945 is based on the collections of the Leiden University Libraries (UBL) and the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV), supplemented with material from the Arsip National Republik Indonesia (in Jakarta).

This exhibition is also available in Dutch.

Authors: 

● Rick Honings 

● Nick Tomberge

● Translations from the Dutch by Eli ten Lohuis.

Digitization: Eva van 't Loo and Brittany Brighouse

Digital exhibition: Jef Schaeps, Joke Pronk and Liesbeth van Wijk

Technical design: Artefacto (London)

This exhibition has its origins in the Vidi project Voicing the Colony. Travelers in the Dutch East Indies 1800-1945, financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and carried out at Leiden University, within the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS).

© Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden, 2025