In this poster, we will introduce four labs which have been created at KBR in the past two years to further support this mission and foster research partnerships within KBR and beyond. These four labs are funded by the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO) FED-tWIN programme – a federal research programme to support sustainable cooperations between Federal Scientific Institutions and Belgian universities. The joint mission of these projects is to lead the acquisition, preservation, dissemination and investigation of several subsets of the cultural and historical heritage which is either already part of KBR's collection, or which is being acquired in the context of KBR's mission.