Heritage and urban development experts from the USA and the Netherlands will meet again on 21 October to discuss the results of their final meeting on Van Ostrande Radliff House in Albany (New York, USA) and Kinderdorp Neerbosch in Nijmegen (NL). We’ll focus on the conservation and management of built heritage sites and how to make new interventions. We will relate to restoration ethics, interventions and the use of (new) materials. Join us at this online public forum and learn more about these two historic sites, the urban development challenges they face, and specifically what their plans and solutions are for restoration of their sites.

The Van Ostrande Radliff House is the oldest Dutch house of Albany. Kinderdorp Neerbosch is just outside of Nijmegen and was one of the largest children’s orphanage and youth care villages in The Netherlands. Both heritage sites are under threat from urban developments.

This public forum will present the findings of this exchange meeting and aims to:

• Reflect on both case studies from an international and comparative perspective;
• Provide several ideas and solutions for sustaining their existence and vitality;

• Help to improve the plans for the urban redevelopment of both areas in Albany and Nijmegen.

We invite you all to listen to the presentations and to take part in the subsequent discussions.

The expert meeting Albany exchange Neerbosch a x n 2022 is organized by the International Heritage Cooperation programme of the Cultural Heritage Agency of The Netherlands together with Historic Albany Foundation and Van ’t Lindenhout Museum of Nijmegen.

Take part

You can take part via this link naar de livestream.

Online walk-in: 10 minutes before the meeting starts.

Your questions or remarks are welcome via the chatbox during the live event.

Provisional programme

Time (CET)	Activity
14.50	Walk-in
15.00	Welcome
15.05	Introduction cases Van Ostrande Radliff-House and Kinderdorp Neerbosch
15.20	Presentation Van Ostrande Radliff House by the Albany-group
16.00	Break
16.10	Presentation Kinderdorp Neerbosch by Neerbosch-group
16.50	Discussion with the participants and public
17.00	Closure