Why I Write about Web Archives? The reason for me to write about Web archiving is quite straight-forward and honest. I started an internship with…
Cultural Built Heritage: You Can’t Sit With Us!
Castles and country houses. For one it is merely an architectural proof of a bygone aristocratic stronghold, for the other an embodiment that fairy tales…
Fruit of The Loom: A Look at the Weaving Heritage Initiative in Gonies, Greece
by Anna Gay I’m in the third grade and am drawn to the hand loom on my art teacher’s desk. The design is as simple…
Why Cultural Organizations Don’t Grow, and Why it’s a Good Thing.
Last week, I was at a talk by Dr. May Al-Ibrashy, the force behind Al-Athar Lina, an amazing initiative which sets out to conserve the…
Coloring Books as Means of Engaging Audiences with European Heritage
For my final paper of the course Who Owns the Past, I wrote about performed European citizenship in the European Route of Industrial Heritage’s event Work It…
One Night Stand: Rethinking the House Museum
House Museums as we know them are in need of a rebellion.
From Visitors to Users: Museum Practice in a Time of Social Media and the Neoliberal Market Economy
Over the last decades, museums worldwide have become more and more invested in creating an online ‘voice’ on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and…
Hands Reaching Out From The Soil
Aesthetic and unsettling – two words that accurately describe “Sankofa” (2017) by Dutch designer Nynke Koster. The colorful rug made of cast rubber fingers might seem comical…
A Possible Treasure Hunt?
Digitization of cultural heritage seems to be a magic wand which has brought revolutionary changes in the cultural heritage realm. One can make a virtual…
Sense and Sensibility: Is it right to publish photographs of human remains on the web?
Human remains are an important source of knowledge for archaeologists, which can reveal lots of information about people’s heritage and lifestyle. It is not unusual…