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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

This may reflect my bias towards doing, but I find that if you get people doing something a bit silly, they get out of normal patterns and hangups and are more willing to think broadly. "Wild idea" sessions , featuring six dream projects, some already in motion, others firmly ensconsed in their creators' heads.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

We selected a First Wave that reflects diversity of geography, size, and sector, so we can see who this works best for and why. The Change Network program launches next week in prototype form with a First Wave of twenty organizations (full list at the end of this post).

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FEBRUARY 26, 2009

This guest post was written by Ruben Huele and describes the scenario-based strategic process used at the Dutch Natural History Museum, Naturalis , to innovate the redevelopment of their permanent collection. The new building of Naturalis, the Dutch National Natural History Museum, opened in 1998. Naturalis will be a theater.

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