ANCODS Handover

Video | Updated 9 years ago

The ANCODS (Agreement between Australia and the Netherlands Concerning Old Dutch Shipwrecks) Collection consists of artefacts recovered from the four Dutch East India Company ships that sank along the Western Australian coast in the 17th and 18th centuries. This video documents a media preview on 20 February 2011, and official handover ceremony on 21 February 2011 when the remaining items of the ANCODS collection were gifted to the WA Museum to create a single consolidated collection.