War Heritage Day

Do you have any objects, letters, diaries or other documents from the Second World War? Then come to Tresoar on Saturday 12 April! That day is dedicated to the 'Don't Throw Away' campaign. The campaign is intended to draw attention to heritage from the Second World War that is still in people's attics.

Tresoar is organising this day together with the Fries Verzetsmuseum, Historisch Centrum Leeuwarden, Kazemattenmuseum Kornwerderzand, Stichting Missing Airmen Memorial Foundation (SMAMF), Cultuurhistorisch Centrum De Tiid and the collaborating OWO municipalities of Ooststellingwerf, Weststellingwerf and Opsterland.

In conversation with experts
Experts from these organisations will be present to talk to you about your document or object and to give you more information about its historical value. They would also like to hear as much as possible from you about the object/document. Who did it belong to? What is the story behind it? Perhaps the object or document is eligible for inclusion in the collection of one of the institutions. The experts will discuss this with you.

Not necessarily handing in
So it is not just about donating material. Museums and archives have a collection policy and can only keep objects that fit into that. The Day is therefore mainly intended to make people aware of the historical value of material from the Second World War. If an object is not included in the collection of one of the participating institutions, the experts can think about a different destination.

Preliminary programme:

• You can visit the new exhibition ‘Twadde thús - Evacuees and their Frisian host families’, in which you can discover stories about evacuees who were taken in by Friesland during the Second World War.
• Every hour there are short lectures by experts about recent new acquisitions