PCF Talk #65 – Agenda Monthly Meeting – Hybrid
This is a hybrid event, please join in person, or via the zoom link below!
Who We Talk About When We Talk About the Maritime
Representation and the Lives Behind the Port
09:00 - 09:15
Welcome and Opening by the thematic group “Human-Centred Port-City Transitions”
Introduction to the Maritime Museum by Annette de Wit, Senior Curator
Exhibition Guided Tour: Maritime Women
(in person only)
09:15 - 10:15
In October 2025 the new exhibition on maritime women opened at the Maritime Museum. An exhibition about women working in the maritime sector, in The Netherlands as well as in other countries around the world. The exhibition shows that they have been there for centuries, working in shipbuilding, inland shipping, in science, in harbours as well as on board—despite the image that prevails in (Dutch) society that the maritime world is a “male world”. But women working in the maritime industry have hardly been researched, so their work and presence go unnoticed. Up until now! The exhibition shows the stories of over 50 women, working from the 16th century until the present day, as ship- and shipyard owners, scientists, sailors or as pirates.
Top: Kenau Hasselaer, ship owner and shipyard owner in the 16th century.
Bottom left: Tieneke Biemold, one of the first naval officers in the Netherlands.
Bottom right: Mary Soulier, stewardess and child carer in the 1960s at the ships of Holland-America Line.
Image courtesy: Maritime Museum
About the Speaker
Irene Jacobs is senior curator at the Maritime Museum, responsible for the art and applied art collections, as well as the photographical objects and printed matters. She got a scholarship from NWO to do research into maritime women, present in the collection of the Maritime Museum. She found nearly 500 women there, of which she researched around 30. It was the basis for the exhibition.
10:15 - 10:25
Break
Research Presentations by Rayke and Nikki
10:25 - 11:05
11:05 - 11:15
Break
Joint Discussion with the Speakers:
Representation of People and Communities in Maritime Culture
11:15 - 11:45
PCF lighthouse projects and new opportunities
11:45 - 12:00