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Exhibition Monumento Historia di nos Futuro
Photo courtesy of The Morning News On 24th of January there was at the office of Stichting Monumentenfonds Aruba (SMFA) the opening of the exhibition by the artist Franco Koolman. The title of the exhibition is Monumento Historia di Nos Futuro (Historic Monuments of our future), the title can be seen back in the works […]
Read more >Maintenance City Hall
On January 13th, the maintenance began at City Hall. On December 9th, the parties signed the contract for maintenance of the building. The work will be led by Monumentenbureau and is scheduled to finish both buildings within 5 months. Monumentenbureau is also the architect of this project and Van Kessel Havenbouw NV will perform maintenance […]
Read more >Aruba Doet | January 2014
SMFA will be part of Aruba doet kingdoms largest volunteers’ event the 21st and 22nd of March. For this event Stichting Monumentenfonds Aruba decided to clean the water reservoir in the neighborhood of Rancho. In November 2013 a group of students from Rotterdam came to Aruba to participate in a workshop about sustainable building. The […]
Read more >Dutch Students present their Sustainable Building study of Rancho area
Source: The Morning News Oranjestad – Government architects Raffy Kock and Glen Goddijn had been host to sixteen students of the University of Rotterdam under the tutelage Associate Professor Sustainable Building Technology, Arjan Karssenberg for two weeks beginning on November 25. The group was on island for third Sustainable Building study on Aruba, with Professor Karssenberg has […]
Read more >Winners of Wiki Loves Monuments Aruba 2013
During the whole month of September internet users around the world participated with Wiki Loves Monuments, world’s largest photography competition with a tolal of 370,000 uploads. This year Aruba participated for the first time with a total of 258 uploaded pictures. The competition was organized by Stichting Monumentenfonds Aruba. The local jury consiting of Daphne […]
Read more >Stichting Monumentenfonds Aruba purchases Nicolaas Store
Nicolaas Store in San Nicolas is owned by the Nicolas family since it was built in the 1930’s. The shop was well known in San Nicolas, but has been out of use for a long time. The Nicolaas family, heirs of its original owner Gabriel Geronimo Nicolas, have now decided to sell the building to […]
Read more >Water Tower San Nicolas is restored
The restoration of the watertower has been finished after ten months. The contractor delivered the tower Friday, March 8th 2013 to the Monuments Fund of Aruba. On the restoration worked among others Plan D2 architects office, PIB, HJC, Ace Lab NV, Albo Aruba, CHS, Croon, ASA, Arubaanse Wegenbouw Maatschappij and Martinez Landscaping. The tower will […]
Read more >New director at Stichting Monumentenfonds Aruba
Stichting Monumentenfonds Aruba appointed Anne Witsenburg-de Jong as new Director Starting April 1st Anne Witsenburg – de Jong is the new director of the Monumentenfonds. She succeeds Lewis van Romondt. Anne has over 15 years of experience in the field of non-profit real estate, including monuments. Anne can be reached by e-mail at [email protected] or […]
Read more >Working visit to Curaçao
The director of the Monumentenfonds has visited Curacao from August 6th till August 10th. She has spoken to Stichting Monumentenzorg, Stichting Stadsherstel Willemstad, Stichting Monumentenfonds and the FKP, the local organization for social housing. She also paid a short visit to the project Fleur de Marie, where a whole neighborhood is being upgraded, the infrastructure as well as the buildings. […]
Read more >Monumentenfonds Aruba has moved!
Stichting Monumentenfonds Aruba new Offices On August 1st 2012 the Monumentenfonds has moved from Schelpstraat 36-38 to her new office in Dakota. Our new address is Avenida Milio Croes 26 (formerly Fergussonstraat, diagonally opposite Van Dorp bookstore). The building is a monument that was designed by Dada Picus, the architect that among other things also […]
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