This homepage is a direct result of the Asian-European network ASEMUS and the partnership between the National Museum of Indonesia, the National Museum of Ethnology  Leiden, the Royal Tropical Museum in Amsterdam and The National Museum of Denmark.
ASEMUS is a new network for co-operative projects between museums in Asia and Europe. It is supported by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF).

Museums in Asia and Europe have large collections of artefacts mirroring Asia-Europe relations throughout history. The history of the past 250 years means, however, that there are major asymmetries. European Museums hold large collections from Asia, including parts of Asian heritage not available in Asia, while most museums in Asia hold few collections originating from Europe.

The ASEMUS network will cope with this asymmetry. Its objectives are:
- to increase joint use of museum collections in Asia and Europe
- to share and transfer professional museum competence
- to develop joint exhibitions.

ASEMUS
ASEMUS is a new network for cooperative projects between museums in Asia and Europe. It is supported by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)

MUSEUM NASIONAL INDONESIA, JARKARTA
The Musium Nasional houses collections under the categories of prehistory, archaeology, ethnography, numismatics-heraldic, geography and historical relics.

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ETHNOLOGY, LEIDEN
The National Museum of Ethnology maintains a number of world-renowned collections, assembled by a series of illustrious collectors. The National Museum of Cultural Anthropology are famous for its well-documented collections.

ROYAL TROPICAL MUSEUM, AMSTERDAM
The Tropenmuseum is the largest anthropological museum in the Netherlands. It contains realistic reconstructions of local environments and attractive displays of exhibits drawn from the museum's huge collections.

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF DENMARK, COPENHAGEN
The museum dates back to 1650, and contains the following collections: Prehistory, Middle Ages and Renaissance,
Modern History, The Victorian Home, Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities and The Ethnographic Collection.

THE NIAS RESEARCH NETWORK

The Nias Research Network are a group of international experts from a wide range of disciplines of the  cultural heritage of Nias such as, architecture, surveying, anthropology, art history, archaeology, photography, human genetics, theology, relief work,  who supports the reconstruction efforts on nias island after the severe catastrophies 2004 and 2005.

THE NIAS RESEARCH NETWORK