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Blueprint Book Club Part 1: How Do You Create a Future-Thinking History Museum?

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Imagine you've just been tasked with developing an innovative, future-thinking national museum for your country's history. Blueprint is the story of a group of people who tried to create a Dutch Museum of National History (INNL). In three years, INNL created a series of fresh, exciting approaches to engaging communities with history.

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Guest Post by Jasper Visser: Storytelling for Social Cohesion at Story House Belvédère

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This small, startup cultural project in Rotterdam works directly and intimately with community members to share their stories. Story House Belvédère in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is a magical place. They do so by making the stories of individuals and communities visible, and encouraging new encounters.

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Blueprint Book Club Part 3: The Future of the National Vending Machine

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This post is the third and final in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. Information on a label and a short video clip informs the buyer about the history behind objects including a tulip, fishing boat, licorice and tea towel.

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Anyone Who Says this isn't a Business is Nuts.

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In the Netherlands, State Secretary for Culture Halbe Zijlstra slashed 200 million euros from the national budget for the arts, leading to the close of the innovative National History Museum project and crippling many superbly inventive and inspiring organizations like Mediamatic and the Waag Society. Well, they only cost me $8 apiece.

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Upcoming Museum 2.0 Book Club: Blueprint

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Once there was a project to design a national history museum in the Netherlands. The team developed some highly innovative digital projects and approaches to history. While not wholly explored, that question reverberates throughout a new book, Blueprint , that shares the plans for the Dutch Museum of National History.

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Launching the First Wave of the OF/BY/FOR ALL Change Network

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Our goal is to help civic and cultural institutions become more representative OF, co-created BY, and welcoming FOR their diverse communities. We've see this model succeed at the MAH and at other community-centered organizations around the world. We see OF/BY/FOR ALL as an adaptable playbook for community change.

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A Radical, Simple Formula for Pop-Up Museums

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There was Jaime Kopke's Denver Community Museum , which existed for nine months in a Denver storefront in 2008-9 to celebrate visitors' creations. And now, Michelle DelCarlo has created a shockingly simple template for pop-up history museums focusing on personal objects of meaning.

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