08/03/12 Johannes Wendland
The Sammlung Falckenberg is seen as a classic example of a public-private collaboration. The collection of Harald Falckenberg came under the wing of the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg in 2011. Johannes Wendland spoke to those involved and assessed how things are going. (This article is published in Metropolis M no. 1-2012)
features 02.03.12 Domeniek Ruyters
Already in 2008 The Wall Street Journal wrote that major collectors would no longer be bequeathing their collections to museums in accepted 20th-century tradition – sometimes in exchange for a plaque with their names in a gallery – but preferred to keep their collections for museums they intended to build themselves. The future of the museum might be private. This is the introduction of the museum special in Metropolis M No 1-2012.
07/01/11 Annet Dekker
Only by making themselves much more dependent on their public can art museums continue to exist. In the third and last part of a series on the future of the museum, METROPOLIS M offers an interview with Nancy Proctor, specialist in the area of mobile and digital strategies for the museum.
Boris Charmatz on the Musée de la Danse
13/10/10 Cosmin Costinaş
As the second in a series of articles on the future of the museum, an interview with the French dancer and choreographer Boris Charmatz on his museum of dance. Whether or not it will ever come about doesn’t matter so much. What’s more important is that the questions it raises sharpen our thinking on the museum.
reviews 09.06.10 Pieternel Vermoortel
After decades of neglecting contemporary art, Italy opens its first national museum dedicated to it. Pieternel Vermoortel describes the new venue designed by Zaha Hadid.
The Rejected
19/08/09 Nina Støttrup Larsen
The selection of Pierre de Sciullo for the house style of the new Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam has caused quite a stir in the world of design, and not only amongst the rejected competitors. Nina Støttrup Larsen examines this surprising choice.
Ubiquitous Museum
17/08/09 Juha van 't Zelfde
Museums are gradually beginning to realize what can be done with new, increasingly sophisticated digital technology. The so-called ‘ubiquitous’ museum, which can be visited everywhere and at all times, is steadily drawing closer.
Lonely at the Top
New Plans for the Stedelijk Museum
20/02/07 Jorinde Seijdel
A museum potentially has the possibility and the means to be a place of critical comparison and discourse, but apparently not in the Netherlands, where museums are in the thrall of an all-consuming market mentality. Take the recent policy statement of the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum. Instead of stepping back from gratuitous conformity to market forces, the museum is following with narry a whisper, with the top of the international museum hierarchy as their ultimate objective. Fundamental changes in society are meanwhile ignored.