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). In three years, INNL created a series of fresh, exciting approaches to engaging communities with history.
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. 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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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. Well, they only cost me $8 apiece.
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. While not wholly explored, that question reverberates throughout a new book, Blueprint , that shares the plans for the Dutch Museum of National History.
Museum 2.0
DECEMBER 7, 2017
Story House Belvédère in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is a magical place. The neighborhood is a mix of people and communities by design and has a rich social history. They focused on one of the key events in Rotterdam history: the bombing of the city at the beginning of the Second World War.
Museum 2.0
NOVEMBER 30, 2011
The never-quite-opened National History Museum of the Netherlands created an innovative vending machine for historic objects, which traveled to festivals and urban centers for people to add their memories. Maria Mortati runs the wonderful SF Mobile Museum , which roams the Bay Area showing mini-exhibits on evocative themes.
Museum 2.0
DECEMBER 22, 2010
Across the Atlantic in the Netherlands, Jasper Visser has been chronicling some of the truly exciting experiments he and his colleagues have been doing as they develop the national history museum for their country. The posts are infrequent, but where else are you going to learn about history vending machines ?
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