The Heritage Foundation Royal Nedlloyd is the proprietor of the art collection and other maritime heritage items of Royal (P&O) Nedlloyd and its predecessors.

The Foundation’s aim is preservation of the collection and access to it. Preservation through ownership and possibly extension and through guaranteeing the continued existence of the collection as a whole. Another aim is to provide access to the collection for ex-Nedlloyd staff and other interested individuals. With this in mind the collecton has been given in a long-term tenure to the maritime museums of Rotterdam and Amsterdam.

With the support of Royal Nedlloyd and the Nedlloyd Pension Fund a new wing was added to the Rotterdam Maritime Museum in 2004. It is here - and in the  recently reopened and completely refurbished Het Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam - that objects from the collection are being exibited in changing exhibitions.