The toolkit was first presented on 10 November 2025 at Wereldmuseum Amsterdam by Matthieu Kasiama, Mbuku Kimpala, and Ced’art Tamasala of CATPC in a closing keynote address during HERE: Heritage Reflections, a seminar for museum professionals focused on restitution.
The toolkit is the result of the past eleven years of CATPC’s direct engagement with several museums built on plantation wealth — and with the communities still living and working on the concerned plantations. This toolkit directly follows CATPC’s recent solo exhibition Two Sides of the Same Coin at the Van Abbemuseum (Netherlands), a museum funded by tobacco plantations in Indonesia. This was the first solo exhibition of a community of plantation workers in a European contemporary art museum. The toolkit was further informed by the presentation of CATPC’s member Ced’art Tamasala in collaboration with Renzo Martens at the annual “Bathtub Lecture” at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, an institution that was also funded by plantations in Indonesia. A short A4 handout version can be downloaded here.
