Community History Netherlands Project 
Museum 2.0
MAY 22, 2012
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). The root of my frustration with the book is not that the project never came to fruition.
Museum 2.0
DECEMBER 7, 2017
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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Museum 2.0
JUNE 6, 2012
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. The Vending Machine project was one of my favorites; you can learn more about it here. But the National Vending Machine, as most of INNL’s projects, is a prototype.
Museum 2.0
APRIL 11, 2012
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. Three years later, at the end of 2011, the project was canceled. There was a location, a budget, and a flurry of planning. What happened?
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
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.
Museum 2.0
JULY 6, 2011
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. Let me explain.
Museum 2.0
NOVEMBER 30, 2011
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. This project is beautiful in its simplicity.
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