Exhibition 'Dierbare Goederen' in Belasting & Douane Museum
In the exhibition DIERBARE GOEDEREN attention is payed to the role of Customs in combatting transnational illegal trade in protected species – alive, dead or products made out of them. Customs officers control and monitor the external borders of Europe to make sure protected species of animals and plants don’t cross our borders.
This confronting and informative exhibition shows a variety of seized ‘goods’, a bear head with its skin, turtles, a leopard rug, a stuffed pangolin and a elephants paw made into a umbrella storage. But also ‘naval products’ as coral, seahorses and medicines or cosmetic products wherein parts of protected species are processed. Most of the ‘objects’ come from the so called ‘Hel of Schiphol’, the storage room for seized ‘precious goods’ of the Dutch national airport.
