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For the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, together with Hylkema Erfgoed, we evaluated the Subsidy Scheme for the Conservation of Monuments (Sim). We investigated to what extent the subsidy scheme aligns with societal challenges and whether the subsidy sufficiently stimulates the sustainable preservation of monuments.
As national monuments are sustainably embedded and visible in our society, the care for them is inherently linked to various current discussions and developments that can change the function of, or perspective on, monuments. Categories of monuments that we now consider obvious were not seen that way in the past, such as industrial heritage, cemeteries, healthcare heritage, and new categories like monuments from the Reconstruction period and post-war residential areas.
The evaluation provides an insight into the effectiveness and efficiency of the Sim that is supported within the monument field. It also illustrates how changes in the scheme have impacted different target groups.
Minister Van Engelshoven (OCW) informed the House of Representatives on July 8 about the evaluation of the Subsidy Scheme for the Conservation of Monuments (Sim). Read the relevant parliamentary letter here and the accompanying table with recommendations from Dialogic and the Council for Culture.
Read the responses to parliamentary questions about the evaluation here.
