The Suriname Time Machine brings together scattered historical sources from Suriname's past on a single interactive map. Records like the Civil Registry, the Slave Register, the Emancipation Register and the Paramaribo Ward Register are held by different heritage institutions across Suriname and the Netherlands. The project links them in one place, built on Linked Open Data principles, so that researchers, genealogists and heritage institutions can search across collections without having to check each archive separately.

Inspired by the European Time Machine project, the Suriname Time Machine looks beyond Europe to a country in the global South. It is a collaborative network of citizen scientists, heritage institutions and researchers, based at the Huygens Institute (KNAW Humanities Cluster) and funded by the Pica Foundation.

For more information, see: https://surinametijdmachine.org/