The OVN Foundation can offer its expertise for projects concering research, inventorying or conservation of masonic objects and buildings, and offers information and advice to students and academics, heritage professionals and the general public. The foundation also initiates heritage projects.
Earlier projects
- Mediation and advice in order to preserve the archive of the Nederlandsch Verbond van Vrijmetselaren in the Municipal Archive of The Hague (2019).
- Establishing an online Network of Esoteric Collections in the Netherlands, aimed at stimulating cooperation between curators of public and private libraries and museum collections in the field of study (2010).
- Campaign aimed to stop the intended (and eventually cancelled) move of the Cultural Masonic Centre from The Hague. The collection is inextricably linked to the city for 300 years on both a historical and a physical level, and a vital part of its excellent (inter)national academic infrastructure.
- Archive project, aimed at the conservation and inventorying of the historical archive of the Dutch branch of the International Order of Mixed Freemasonry ‘Le Droit Humain’ (2009-2010).
- An inventory of remaining historical lodge buildings of masculine and mixed masonic orders in the Netherlands, built between 1735 and 1945 (2005-2010). A publication of the results is being prepared.
- An educational website on the history of freemasonry in the Netherlands with and information portal to the field of study: http://www.stichtingovn.nl/ (2008).
- An inventory of the historical archives of Dutch lodges in public collections, and the publication of the results in a research guide: Archiefwijzer maçonnieke archieven (2005-2007). A third edition, which will also include data on the archives of various related esoteric currents and friendly societies, is being prepared.
- Archive project, aimed at the conservation and inventorying of the historical archive of the Dutch branch of the International Order of Mixed Freemasonry ‘Le Droit Humain’ (2009-2010).
- An inventory of remaining historical lodge buildings of masculine and mixed masonic orders in the Netherlands, built between 1735 and 1945 (2005-2010). A publication of the results is being prepared.
- An educational website on the history of freemasonry in the Netherlands with and information portal to the field of study: http://www.stichtingovn.nl/ (2008).
- An inventory of the historical archives of Dutch lodges in public collections, and the publication of the results in a research guide: Archiefwijzer maçonnieke archieven (2005-2007). A third edition, which will also include data on the archives of various related esoteric currents and friendly societies, is being prepared.
