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Collections > Anthropological collections
NAAM owns and maintains a number of anthropological collections:
- The Brenneker-Juliana collection. This is the largest anthropological collection with over 3000 artifacts, collected by father Paul Brenneker and Ellis Juliana since the 1950ies. With their varying cultural backgrounds Father Brenneker and Ellis Juliana - a local boy - complemented each other. Throughout the years these two persons collected an irreplaceable richness of information. This information includes a collection of artifacts as well as intangible information. This information has been preserved on audio cassettes and in books and oral history reports. The artifacts include household utensils, documents, religious objects, musical instruments and works of art. A representative selection is now exhibited at the Museo Tula and the Museo Savonet. The audiovisual part; the Zikinzá collection was handed over to NAAM by the foundation Zikinzá; this noteworthy collection includes over 1000 songs and stories.
- The inventory of the Shon We Evertsz shop in Otrobanda; a collection of objects, dating from the beginning of the 20th century
- School materials from the period between 1900 – 1950, including materials from the historical St. Thomas College
- Musical instruments which belonged to percussionist Benny Privania
- Sport trophies, won by the local sports hero Eduardo ‘Beto’ Adriana
- The collection of 500 years Curacao (Fundashon 500)
- The collection of the famous politician Doktor Da Costa Gomez
- A loose collection including canons, millstones and models for the hat-making industry.
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