Starting from 1 January 2011, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science aims to accommodate the activities of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (Instituut Collectie Nederland, ICN) within the Institute for Cultural Heritage (Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, RCE). The aim is to safeguard the quality of care for cultural heritage in the Netherlands, while increasing the efficiency of that care at the same time. In the new structure, all expertise in the field of movable and immovable cultural heritage will be combined in one cultural heritage institute.

Through the mobility of collections European citizens can become acquainted with their own and other cultures and are able to pass on this heritage to future generations. 
Collections Mobility 2.0, Lending for Europe 21st century is a project that aims to facilitate mobility of objects between museums of all European Member States. By offering practical training packages, a theoretical handbook and this website, the initiators hope that museum professionals will make even better use of their collections and explore the possibilities that exist in international collections mobility more often.