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.…
The challenge of shaping the layout of an Exhibition Space
In the last couple of months, I have been working as an intern in an art gallery called Kunsthuizen situated in Amsterdam. My role in the gallery…
Going beyond the performance.
“Empathy; The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.” – OED. By Elspeth Hunter There is no denying that empathy is slowly…
Visitor Meaning Making – Opinion, Perception, Perspective and Illusion?
By Nazlu Laird The definition of an optical illusion is, ‘an experience of seeming to see something which does not exist or is other than…
Oh. My. D.
By Bram de Jong It occurred to me when thinking of the Dutch Open Monuments Day (OMD) that it could serve as an interesting platform…