By Amanda Smith Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, Flikr, Pintrest, Tumblr, YouTube and LinkedIn – all popular social media sites used predominantly by the 18-30…
Take a risk.
By Elspeth Hunter The boundaries of what constitutes a museum, a gallery, a library or an archive are shifting – each are bleeding into one…
How will museums of the future look?
By Claire Farbrace As a keen museum-goer, I was thrilled to move to Amsterdam and explore the wide range of museums on offer in and…
The touristic terms
By Bram de Jong When I wandered through Ljubljana during a holiday last summer I did not come prepared…
Treasures in Trusted Hands
Image: Anonymous, Mask, 1700-1800, Collection Rijksmuseum Amsterdam By Sanne Letschert On the 29th of May CLUE+ – the Amsterdam based research institute for Culture, History…
#heritage
By Paige Foley I can’t be the only one who has watched a strangers’ eyes glaze upon revealing the field in which I study. “Heritage?…
Let’s Turn up the Volume: Music, Heritage and the Women’s Liberation Movement
By Nazlu Laird Deborah Withers’ lecture Contemporary Intangible Heritage and Archiving Memory: Music making in the UK Women’s Liberation Movement, as part of the Innovative…
Digital technology: a mean to achieve co-creation and participation in museums.
Stepping out from our personal ‘comfort zone’ is advertised by many motivational psychologists as the magic trick to re-invent our life path and reaching happiness…
Putting a Window in The Wall
By Amanda Smith “Let’s Take Back Control”, “Make America Great Again” and make “Nederland Weer Van Ons” (“Make The Netherlands Ours Again”). In the early…
Giving power to the people in the museum
By Claire Farbrace Oral History With an increasing emphasis being put on oral history nowadays, many museums rely on the input of their stakeholders, i.e.…