There is something else to consider: a truly democratic project is not only impossible, it is also undesirable. The museum end product, the website, the exhibition, the book always needs a story and a design. If not, the result of crowdsourcing would become fragmented and anecdotal. That is why it is important to have a clear concept in advance in which the contributions are given a place. That concept will have to be devised by someone. In most cases by a project leader or a curator. So in the end they are still needed to separate the wheat from the chaff, to make a story from all the impressions and to cast that story in a captivating form. The resulting exhibition will therefore not be 100% ‘bottom-up’ very quickly. And that is a good thing.
What is happening in the Netherlands in this area?
One of the first large crowdsource projects in the Netherlands was wiki loves art/NL . A photo contest where people saudi arabia phone number list were invited to take pictures of artworks in the participating museums. It resulted in a large exhibition in the Rotterdam Maritime Museum in 2009.
In the meantime, much more is happening. This article takes its title from a recent discussion evening on ‘Heritage and Crowdsourcing’ at the Reinwardt Academy in Amsterdam. During this evening, several inspiring examples were shown. Annemarie van Eekeren (Amsterdam Museum) spoke about Neighborhood Shops , Irene van Renselaar (Museum Rotterdam) about The City as Muse, Jasper Local shops: an Visser (National Historical Museum) about New Greetings from the Netherlands and Roy Creemers (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts) about For the Arts
Buurtwinkels is a story site with which the Amsterdam Museum wants to tell the story of the Amsterdam neighborhood shops. Some of the stories were submitted online, by customers or people from the neighborhood. Another part was recorded in interviews by museum staff and volunteers.
Neighborhood shops project online
Buurtwinkels builds on previous projects of the AM such as ‘Het Geheugen van Oost’. The site is set up in a similar the antidote 12 writing assistant is making sparks! way. What is immediately noticeable is the great wealth of material that has already been collected, while the project has not yet been completed. At the moment, there is something to be found about 493 Amsterdam shops. But these are not just many stories, they american samoa business directory are also beautiful stories with a very personal and sometimes moving character. And beautiful photographic material has come to light, for example about former shops on the Jodenbreestraat . According to Annemarie van Eekeren, project leader of Buurtwinkels, this wealth would not have been possible without crowdsourcing.