Posted: May 24th, 2010 | Author: Jasper Visser | Filed under: Exhibitions, Innovation | Tags: Audience, connections, conversation, crowd, exhibition, experience, photography, practice | 4 Comments »
Nieuwe groeten uit… (“New greetings from…”) is a crowd-sourced, crowd-curated exposition in the city of Arnhem in the east of the Netherlands. Last Thursday my museum opened the last part of the yearlong project. In many ways it’s a special exposition and project, I think, and worth sharing.
Somewhat over a year ago FOAM photography museum Amsterdam, the ANP Historical Archive and the Museum of National History of the Netherlands came together to find a replacement for the traditional postcards. Most postcards show an old-fashioned image of Holland: cheese, cows and wooden shoes. The Netherlands has changed significantly over the last years, and Nieuwe Groeten Uit… was a search for new postcards.
The general public played a mayor part in every phase of the project: gathering the photographs for the postcards, selecting the best post-cards and even putting them on display.
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Posted: May 16th, 2010 | Author: Jasper Visser | Filed under: Innovation, Lessons learned, Social media, Technology | Tags: advice, conversation, do's and don'ts, energy, experience, guidelines, lessons, tips | 5 Comments »
Photo from the Flickr Commons (Field Museum Library)
I’m relatively new to museums. Apart from a short intermezzo in an ecomuseum, the last year has been my only year within the walls of a museum. I do new media and technology. We do a lot of innovation. This is what I learned last year.
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Posted: May 10th, 2010 | Author: Jasper Visser | Filed under: Innovation, Thoughts about museums | Tags: architecture, building, exhibition, inspiration, interior | 3 Comments »
Photo by Thomas Hawk on Flickr
Last weekend I worked on a project idea involving the creative use of stairs in a museum. Stairs and escalators are often not more than a connection between two galleries. There is, however, so much more you can do with them. Stairs and escalators are an amazing place to use new media to connect with your audience.
Why? Stairs and especially escalators are (with toilets and ticket queues) the only place where your audience will stay a while. They’ll have to go up (or down) anyway, so why not give them something to do or look at in the meantime?
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