Canadian Embassy in the Hague Invites Global Health Students to Inuit Art Exhibition to Celebrate Canada 150
Invited by the Canadian Embassy in The Hague, McMaster Global Health students attended the official opening of an Inuit Art Exhibition at the Museum of Ethnology in Leiden on Friday to celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary.
The students, who are currently on exchange in the Netherlands as part of the program’s winter term, also had the opportunity to network and meet Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, Honorary Chair of the program’s Global Health Advisory Board, who was there to open the exhibition.
The exhibition featured Dutch collector Hans van Berkel’s Inuit art collection, which he donated to the museum, as well as several pieces from the private collection of HRH Princess Margriet and her husband, Pieter van Vollenhoven.
“Given my interest in Aboriginal culture – and lifelong participation in the arts – I was delighted to be invited to this special event,” says student Laura Jamieson.
Read more about the event in Jamieson’s blog article
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