Hazardous Heritage Within the War Heritage Institute

Abstract

Within the War Heritage Institute’s collections there are objects and parts of objects that pose a potential risk to staff and visitors to the various sites. Not all objects are easily identified as potentially dangerous and not everyone is aware of what could be potentially dangerous. To raise awareness especially among the staff working with the collections and also to alert visitors to the depots about the potential dangers, Van de Voorde Saskia and Vangansewinkel Zoë-Joy have prepared a poster to clearly display these dangers. Although this poster is currently limited to the objects within the War Heritage Institute’s textile collections, an attempt is made to indicate as clearly as possible the potential dangers and how to protect oneself from these dangers within the collection. The ambition is to also identify potentially dangerous objects in the future within other collections of the War Heritage Institute.