Pressing Matter – Threads of Time

This Provenance Research Reports Series shows the variety of approaches to provenance research on specific objects, collections, collectors, and regions. This is the first of four issues.

Between 2021 and 2025, a team of researchers in museums and at universities in the Netherlands, of artists , critical friends, winter school participants and many others from around the world have been collaborating in the research project Pressing Matter – Ownership, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums. 

It is their ambition that the network that emerged from the project will remain intact, in order to continue the discussions on what they label as ‘Critical Provenance Research’.

This Series of their Provenance Research Reports is one of the means to maintain and also extend this network.