Special Collections

The Special Collections comprise photos, picture postcards, prints and drawings, maps and atlases, Oriental and Western manuscripts and archives, and audiovisual materials. Most of these our holdings can be accessed in our online catalogues, with many search options. In addition, the archive inventories are available on this website in pdf format. The materials themselves can be consulted in the Special Collections reading room.

The photograph collection includes some 125.000 documents, relating mainly to Indonesia before 1957. In addition the collection contains photos connected with Suriname, the Netherlands Antilles and several other countries. Furthermore there is also a collection of prints, drawings and paintings, comprising roughly 3500 documents, the majority of which is described in the catalogue written by J.H. Maronier (Pictures of the Tropics, 1967). Access to these collections, insofar as they are described, is provided by a dedicated website, through which copies may also be acquired.

Opening hours Special Collections: Monday to Friday, 9.00 h - 17.00 h

Tel: +31 (0)71-527 2473 / 2637
Email: archives@kitlv.nl

Documents and catalogues of the Special Collections may be consulted in the reading room Special Collections (room 234, on the second floor).