Erik Schilp on the Canon of Dutch history and the museum of 21st century
March 23rd Erik Schilp, CEO of the Dutch Museum of National History (the institution I work for) gave a compelling speech on the Canon of Dutch history and the museum of the 21st century. He gave his...
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Creating Trustville – A museum as community centre for cultural and social...
This is an article I wrote for the (recently launched) project Creating Trustville. This project is a place for ideation of new social structures and the conceptualisation of the institutions of the...
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Innovation: Now even more important! – Random notes on the Dutch Museum...
Photo by Thomas van Ardenne. The Dutch Museum Congress is the yearly get-together for museum professionals from the Netherlands. It’s a great event to meet each other and make new friends. This year’s...
View ArticleWhat is a museum (as well)?
Ask anyone what a museum is and most people will come up with an answer including a building and paintings on the wall. Or old stuff in displays. A somewhat older post by New Curator on the function...
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What is good museum architecture?
In a couple of days we’ll present a book with sketches for future museums. The book “Sketches for a National Museum of History” explores possibilities for museum architecture. Kenneth Frampton and Hans...
View ArticleReflections on London’s museums, galleries and theatre
I love London. And, after the recent unsettling events, I would like to take a moment to focus on the city’s finer side: its cultural institutions and its arts. In times like these, I think, London...
View ArticleInspirational female (future) leaders in museum and culture
Update 1 May 2013: Added new names and removed numbering (this is not a ranking!) Update 19 April 2013: Added 8 names from email & comments. Many more to come once I’ve gone through the tweets....
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Museums in times of social and technological change
At the end of the first season of Downton Abbey in a scene that is exemplary of the serie’s greatness, the Dowager Countess of Grantham (Maggie Smith) exclaims that “Sometimes I feel as if I were...
View ArticleBuilding a culture, not a building: What museums can learn from startups
FMT Workforce is a new platform that delivers innovation on demand (in Dutch, but Google Translate is your friend). A community of innovators, strategists, entrepreneurs and others who use the internet...
View ArticleReflections on the reopening of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Among the many powerful memories of my first visit to Sarajevo in the spring of 2013, is the front door of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The museum was closed, and had been so for...
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