Tropical Topics
OK, trivia question. What was the first mention in literature of metallic female robots? The answer will be somewhere in today’s post, so now you’ll have to read the whole thing and not just look at the pictures. Today we visited the Tropenmuseum. The collection started out to investigate the best ways to exploit Dutch overseas conquests in the tropics, but these days it is an extended apology for Dutch colonial history. The ethnographic artifacts are mostly from Indonesia, South…