De sfeer van een ruimte of omgeving is een belangrijke factor in de beleving van die ruimte door een bezoeker. Om het belang van de factor sfeer te kunnen vaststellen is een goed meetinstrument nodig. In deze studie wordt een voorstel gedaan voor een dergelijk meetinstrument. Hiertoe wordt een meta-analyse …

After two years, The Mix is coming home. This photo project - a series of four presentations - has been on view at various museums in the Netherlands in recent years. To create it, contemporary photographers were inspired by a photographer whose work is included in the Nederlands Fotomuseum’s collection. …

Sinds deze millenniumwisseling zijn er mondjesmaat steeds meer tentoonstellingen in musea die gaan over het slavernijverleden. Daarbij wordt erfgoededucatie ingezet om leerlingen onderwijs over dit onderwerp aan te bieden. Met deze toenemende vraag vanuit opdrachtgevers van musea aan ontwerpers van educatieve …

The Museum Volkenkunde (National Museum of Ethnology) in Leiden is a museum about people and their cultures. The museum’s activities consist of permanent exhibitions of objects from eight different cultural areas around the world as well as small and large temporary exhibitions. To attract visitors to …

International Conference Teylers Museum, Haarlem, 20 - 22 April 2017Museums and (the Loss of) the Encyclopedic Ideal, 1785-2016

Does nothingness have to be empty, related to white, and, ultimately, be a shrouded representation of whiteness? Are empty spaces really, as John Barry claimed in his “No Show Museum” piece, quoting Marcuse, “places to which we can come, and for a while ‘be free to think about what we are going to do’”? …

Today the role of the museum institution is often questioned and consumed by crises of meaning, funding, and relevance. Within the European context the economic crisis resulted in major budget-cuts in the public spending, which also affected artistic and cultural public funds. It has been thus increasingly …

The Openluchtmuseum in Arnhem has been around for a hundred years sharing experience and promoting the cultural heritage of the Netherlands. The museum has primarily been sharing and promoting only with the Dutch market but has now grown enough in visitor numbers and revenue to focus on a new customer …

Text of the Reinwardt memorial lecture by Margriet Schavemaker at the Reinwardt Academie on the 17th May of 2016.