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Information on recent activities and assignments
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News, May 12, 2026
TiMe Amsterdam at Annual Conference German Museums Association
The Deutscher Museumsbund (German Museums Association) held their three-day annual conference in Stuttgart from 8-10 May. About 450 directors and managers participated in the conference. On the final day the ‘Fachgrupppen' (working committees) joined to discuss relevant topics that would fit in the general conference theme Alle Welt im Museum? Museen in der pluralen Gesellschaft. At this closing session, Max Meijer (TiMe Amsterdam) presented, at the request of the Dutch Museums Association, a paper for the Historical Museums Fachgruppe Kultur und Die Kunstmuseen, entitled Agenda 2026. Ein Zukunftsszenario nur für Niederländische Museen? Chancen Risiken in den nächsten Jahrzehnten (Agenda 2026, Study on the Future of Dutch Museums, opportunities and threats in the next decades). The lecture, presented in the Neue Staatsgalerie, dealt with backgrounds and strategic use at micro and macro levels of the Dutch Agenda 2026. In the subsequent plenary it was further explored to what extent a future scenario like Agenda 2026 could be an effective tool for the German museum sector. In addition similarities and differences between German and Dutch museums were discussed, with specific attention to the Bildungsauftrag of museums and the role of Bundesländer, as well as the possible relevance of the Dutch Agenda 2026 'trends'. The strategic and proactive opportunities that a future scenario offers, met with great interest. It is now up to the Deutscher Museumsbund to determine whether they could use a similar future-scenario-study in support of political lobbying and policy building. Because if one thing became clear, it is that budget cutbacks in Germany and possible museum closures form a reality behind the splendid facades of German museums. (photo: Neue Staatsgelerie, Stuttgart)
www.museumsbund.de
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News, April 16, 2012
Talks in Jakarta concerning development railway museum Ambarawa (Central Java)
During a recent visit to Indonesia TiMe Amsterdam discussed possible next steps in the joint efforts concerning the revitalization project of the Railway Museum in Ambarawa (Central Java). The Dutch counterpart, the National Heritage Agency (Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed) coordinates the project from the Dutch side, withing the framework of the Shared Heritage Program. Focus of this cooperation between the Netherlands and Indonesia is sharing knowledge, exchange of information and local capacity building. TiMe Amsterdam joined the RCE team as an external expert, and joined the RCE team before during the workshops early 2011 in Semarang. Last Friday, April 13 Max Meijer (TiMe Amsterdam) discussed in Jakarta on behalf of the RCE progress with the cultural department of the Dutch Embassy. Followed by a roundtable discussion held on Saturday, April 14, with the staff of the Heritage Division of PT Kereta Api, the Indonesian state railway company. This organization is responsible for the Ambarawa museum. Colleague-consultant Hans versnel took part in the Saturday-meeting. Aim of the meeting was to investigate what knowledge is required by the Heritage Divisions’ team and how individual training programs could be planned.
www.cultureelerfgoed.nl
indonesianheritagerailway.com
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News , March 20, 2012
AICA awards Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay
This week the American chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) announced the winner of its annual AICA Awards honoring artists, curators and institutions for excellence in art exhibitions in 2011. Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay (held at the Cooper-Hewitt National design Museum in New York) was awarded second place from the association in the category of Architecture or Design shows. First place went to the Alexander McQueen show at the Metropolitan Museum. The winning projects were nominated and voted on by the 400 active members to honor outstanding exhibitions of the previous season (June 2010-June 2011). The 24 winners of first and second places in twelve categories, have been selected from over one hundred finalists. Petra Timmer, co-director of TiMe Amsterdam and internationally recognized Sonia Delaunay expert, wrote an authoritative essay in the exhibitions catalogue and moderated a lecture evening at the Cooper-Hewitt in March 2011. The catalogue has been reprinted by Thames and Hudson and is still available.
more information:
www.thamesandhudson.com/9780500289396.html
www.aicausa.org/
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News, March 16, 2012
University of Amsterdam MA in Preservation and Restauration of Cultural Heritage
The University of Amsterdam offers an MA in restauration. As such it is the only training institute in the Netherlands offering education on a scientific level in Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage.
This year students will follow a management module, with focus on the various business aspects of restoration. TiMe Amsterdam has been requested to arrange a lecture day in May 2012, on marketing, positioning, and (professional) networks.
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News, March 10, 2012
Reopening of Historical Museum Den Briel by Queen Beatrix, March, 31.
The Historical Museum Den Briel is celebrating its centenary this year with the reopening of the completely refurbished museum on 31 March by Queen Beatrix. TiMe Amsterdam was from mid 2009 to early 2010 involved in the museum planning process. The Masterplan provided by TiMe Focus 2012 (January 2010) advocated a clearer focus and attractive museological concept. This would strengthen the museums profile for a wider audience. The recommendations were adopted later that year by the city council of Brielle, after which the museum staff along with external advisors and exhibition designers managed the redesign of the permanent museum presentations.
In accordance with the Masterplan, the central theme of the permanent presentation is the Eighty Years War. With extra attention to the events in Brielle on April 1, 1572. On that day, the ‘Watergeuzen’ captured the city from the Spanish. Thus Brielle became the first liberated city in the country, a great step towards the (independent) Dutch Republic.
more information: www.historischmuseumdenbriel.nl
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News, March 09, 2012
Petra Timmer (TiMe Amsterdam) appointed Secretary to Committee on deaccession
Dutch registered museums affiliated to the Dutch Museum Association and Museum Register consult the LAMO (the museum deaccession guideline) when deaccession of museum objects is planned. The original LAMO dates from 2000 and has been revised in 2006. The professional views however evolve with time and changing circumstances. Thus, now in 2012, partly in response to recent developments such as the sale of the painting The School Boys by Marlene Dumas by Museum Gouda (2011), the Dutch Museums Association requests an update of the guideline and procedures concerned. Petra Timmer will hold the post of secretary to the special revision committee appointed by the Dutch Museums Association. Previously, in 2006, Petra was editor and co-author of the publication Nothing is lost, twenty years of selection and deaccession from Dutch museum collections (ICN / Boekmanstudies 2007). (Photo: The School Boys by Marlene Dumas).
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Happy New Year!
The TiMe Amsterdam team wishes all a happy new year and we are looking forward to a succesfull cooperation with you in 2012!
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News, february 03, 2012
Applications ‘Kunstenplan' 2013-2016 completed
As indicated earlier TiMe Amsterdam has supported six Dutch museums in preparing their applications. for the state and municipal grants for the Kunstenplan 2013-2016. (The four years public grants scheme in the Netherlands) Those were the Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Enschede and vife Amsterdam based museums: The Rembrandt House Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Museum, Museum Our Lord in the Attic and the Biblical Museum. All applications had to be delivered before February 1st and consisted of an over all business plan for the years 2013-2016 and the actual application form. The assistance TiMe provided varied slightly in each case. From the editing of submitted documents, to the strengthening of the museum’s general topics like mission statements and core values to consultation sessions with their Board of Trustees. It was an intensive process with short lead times and continuous feedback to the clients. TiMe’s role has been supportive and aimed at maximum identification by employees, directors and supervisors of these institutions. Previously TiMe Amsterdam had been involved in the Kunstenplan procedures. On behalf of the Amsterdam Museum Directors Committee Max Meijer moderated two exploratory sessions with Amsterdam museum directors the end of August 2011, while in earlier that month het acted as moderator during a brainstorm session of State Museum Directors hosted by the VRM (Association of State Museums).
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News, January 24, 2011
Plans for Centre of Landscape, Arts and Culture presented
As indicated before TiMe Amsterdam presented a feasibility study and businessplan for a future Centre for Landscape Arts and Culture in the municipality of Renkum in the east part of The Netherlands. The businessplan has been delivered to Renkum’s Mr Erik Heinrich, Alderman of Culture. On Thursday December, 19, the plan has been presented during an informal network meeting in the Town Hall at Oosterbeek. Max Meijer (TiMe Amsterdam) delivered a talk and stressed the opportunities in general outline. The general museum concept connects Art and Nature and the rich artistic heritage of Renkum, which was one of Europe’s first 19-th century Artists Colonies.
More information: www.renkum.nl
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News, December 26, 2011
Editorial assistance requested by two Amsterdam Museums
TiMe Amsterdam assists two Amsterdam based museums in the process of completing their grants application for the next Municipal Arts Plan period 2013-2016. Both The Rembrandt House Museum and the Stedelijk Museum asked TiMe Amsterdam for editorial support. Both museums must submit their application February 1.
www.stedelijk.nl
www.rembrandthuis.nl
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News, December 15, 2011
Lecture Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen Düsseldorf, Germany
As part of the exhibition Die Andere Seite des Mondes, Künstlerinnen der Avantgarde, the
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen Düsseldorf presents an extensive side program.
Petra Timmer (TiMe Amsterdam) wil deliver a lecture on the artist Sonia Delaunay on Thursday, January 5, 2012. The meeting will be held in the auditorium of the K20 building, Grabbeplatz Düsseldorf.
More information: www.kunstsammlung.de
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News, December 11, 2011
Redevelopment Museum Den Briel, Brielle The Netherlands
Due to the renovation of its presentations, the Historical Museum Den Briel will be closed to the public till April, 1 2012. In the 'new' museum, the presentations focus on the Eighty Years’ War and the famous liberation of Den Briel on April 1 1572. The presentation includes the capture of Den Briel, as well as themes like The Spanish Inquisition, Prince Maurits of Orange, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, the Dutch Republic and also some notorious victims of the Eighty Years' War, such as Angelus Merula, and the Martyrs of Gorcum. In addition to the focus on the Eighty Years’ war, a special room is designed as treasure room with highlights of local cultural heritage. The redevelopment plans started with Focus 2012, containing an overall museum concept and recommendations for a stronger profile and position of the museum. TiMe Amsterdam delivered this report early 2010, following a commission by the Municipality of Brielle (Den Briel).
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News, December 09, 2011
Business plan Center for Landscape Art and Culture, Renkum The Netherlands
Recently TiMe Amsterdam presented a business plan for a future Centre for Landscape Art and Culture (CLKC) in Renkum, in the east of The Netherlands. The past year this plan has been developed in an interactive process with local stakeholders. The plan includes an overall concept for this Centre, including estimates and budgets for the planning, development and construction and the annual operation costs. It is intended that the CLKC is supported by two existing cultural institutions and a commercial party. The museological concept includes permanent museum exhibitions, temporary exhibitions, and events. Besides the three 'core partners' are also five other local organizations closely involved as ‘partners’. It is intended that early 2012 further decisions on the plans will be made by the municipality of Renkum. The plan will then be made public. The center is based on the connection of the visual arts and nature. It aims to help to promote Renkum as an interesting tourist destination. The visual arts and landscape connection is in line with the history of the villages of Oosterbeek and Wolfheze. Around the second half of the 19th century here one of the first artists' colonies in Europe arose. As such the villages have been called The Dutch Barbizon. (Photo: 2011 TiMe Amsterdam, the river Rhine at Oosterbeek)
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News, December 07, 2011
Van Eesteren Museum Amsterdam
The Van Eesteren Museum in Amsterdam commissioned TiMe Amsterdam to develop a concept and deliver a feasibility study for a house museum.
The Van Eesteren Museum is a unique museum in Amsterdam West. It presents the story of the post war development of the garden city Amsterdam West. Designed by city planner and architect Cornelis van Eesteren, before World War II. He developed one of the world's first realised garden cities. The museum is housed in a former school building in the Western Garden Cities and includes an introductory presentation on planning, architecture, development and habitation history of the area. The district itself can be seen as the in situ presentation of the museum. The museum is also the starting point for tours of the district. It also provides a lively and successful programme of events and activities which attracts both local residents and a wide range of visitors. Thus the museum is not only a heritage institution but also a vital binding element within Amsterdam West. As such it contributes to the general quality of life, social cohesion and the overall image of the district which is nowadays a lively melting pot of immigrants and original inhabitants. The museum has the intention and ambition to develop a house museum: an original private house open to the public, to experience the intentions of town planners as Van Eesteren. Feasability, financeability and the development of a museological concept are part of the assignment.
More information: www.vaneesterenmuseum.nl
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News, October 01, 2011
Who's Afraid of Oriental Girls?
On Sunday, October 2, 2011 Max Meyer delivered an opening speech during the vernissage of the group exhibition Who's Afraid of Oriental Girls? This takes place at Galerie Espace Enny in Laag Keppel. The exhibition presents works of five strong women with family roots in East and South Asia. Beside work of curator and Lee Eung Young, Youn Yunjoo, Jihyun Kwak (Korea), work will be shown of Monali Meher (India) and Miyuki Okuyama (Japan). Living and working in the Netherlands these artists refer in their artworks to memories, traditions and history from the Far East. Thus the visitor faces best of both worlds. The opening will take place at 15:00 hours.
www.espaceenny.nl
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News, October 01, 2011
Annual Museums Conference of the Netherlands Museums Association
On 6 and 7 October, the fifth conference of the Dutch Museum Association will take place in Leiden.
TiMe Amsterdam participates in this annual meeting. This time during the RCE (The Netherlands Heritage Agency) workshop on the valuation of the museum collections. This workshop will be held October 7 at the National Museum of Antiquities.
www.museumconmgres.nl
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News, September 28, 2011
Discussion on disposal of collection items
On September 21 an Ergfoed Arena (Public Heritage Discussion) took place at Amsterdam’s Reinwardt Academy. Museums collections in difficult times: opportunity or millstone? was raised as central topic. More specifically the discussion concentrated on making choices regarding the continuity of collections. In the arena, two deaccession case studies were presented by Chris Ronteltap (Director Army Museum in Delft merging with Military Aviation Museum) and Gerard de Kleijn (Director museumgoudA). Max Meijer (Amsterdam, TiMe) acted as the third speaker. His thesis was "The way the museum sector presents the discussion on deaccessioning in the media is leading to collateral damage. In his column, he expressed his concern about the image museums recently created in the media when discussing deaccassioning cases like the disposal of a Marlene Dumas painting by museumgoudA. He called for binding arbitration in the museum sector and more formal regulations in the case of financial motivated disposal. As an example to follow he reffered to the updated Deaccessioning toolkit of the British Museums Association.
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News, September 20, 2011
Indonesian Railway Heritage team visits The Netherlands
Early October 2011 a delegation from the Heritage Division of the Indonesian national railway company will visit the Netherlands. The visit is part of the Shared Cultural Heritage Program of the Netherlands Cultural Heritage Agency (Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, RCE).
The delegation will pay visits to Netherlands railway heritage institutes, archives and museums.
The visit is a continuation of the successful workshops presented earlier this year by a team of RCE in Indonesia. There the focus was on the revitalization of the railway museum and the museum railway of Ambarawa Indonesia, Central Java. Max Meijer (TiMe Amsterdam) supported the RCE team as external heritage advisor. He will attend the main part of the delegations visit's to heritage and training institutes in the Netherlands in October. In the upcoming december issue of the Dutch heritage magazine Vitruvius a comprehensive report of the mission by the RCE team in Indonesia will be presented. (Photo: the final day of the workshop in Semarang, March 2011).
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News September 06, 2011
Female avant garde in Düsseldorf
On October 22 the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf opens the exhibition "Die andere Seite des Mondes" - Künstlerinnen der Avantgarde ('The Other Side of the Moon' - women artists of the Avant-garde). This exhibition presents work by eight female artists of the 20s and 30s, of -among others- Hannah Höch, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Sonia Delaunay. Petra Timmer (TiMe Amsterdam) has been asked to contribute to the lecture programme of the museum. On January 5, 2012 she will be co-presenting a public dialogue with Matteo de Leeuw-de Monti on the life and work of Sonia Delaunay, with specific attention for her role as artist and entrepreneur.
More information: http://www.kunstsammlung.de
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News August 24, 1011
Round tables Amsterdam Museums
The City of Amsterdam presented late June the memorandum Outlook 2013-2016. In this paper the Alderman of Culture anticipates the consequences of the (state) budget cuts in the arts and culture sector and the implications for Amsterdam. This city is severely affected by the cutbacks of the cabinet. 37 Amsterdam art institutions lose their position in the so called basic infrastructure. Totalling budget cut of 33 million Euros. Other institutions are losing parts of their state funding. The Directors of the Amsterdam Cultural Institutions (ACI) is organizing a number of roundtables with directors of institutions involved. These focus on a number of questions about effects of the proposed budget cuts. TiMe Amsterdam (Max Meyer) has been asked to moderate two of these meetings: one with Amsterdam museums that receive subsidies from the municipality and one with Amsterdam based state-funded museums. The meetings will be held in September.
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News August 23, 2011
Who's Who? Art in the World 2011
The Stichting Kunstweek presented the sixth edition of the book Who's Who? In the art world. The publication provides an overview of the 200 most influential persons in the field of arts and culture in The Netherlands. Max Meijer (TiMe Amsterdam) was again recorded in this years issue. Who’s Who is available in Dutch only.
More information: www.kunstweek.nl
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News August 01, 2011
Thames and Hudson releases: Colour Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay
Colour Moves focuses not only on abstract painter and colourist Sonia Delaunay’s art but also her avant-garde fashion designs from her own Atelier Simultané in Paris during the 1920s as well as textiles she designed for the Metz & Co Department store in Amsterdam in the 1930s. Applying her talents and theories to all areas of visual expression, including graphics, interiors, theatre and film, fashion and textiles, a trademark of Delaunay’s work is the sense of movement and rhythm created by the simultaneous contrasts of certain colours. The book features authoritative essays by Matilda McQuaid, Matteo de Leeuw-de Monti and Petra Timmer (TiMe Amsterdam). The artworks are drawn from the cream of France’s museums, including Paris’s Musée des Art Décoratifs and the Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, as well as many other distinguished private collections throughout Europe and the USA.
ISBN 9780500289396, 28.00 x 20.30 cm, Paperback with flaps, 204pp, With over 250 illustrations
£22.50
www.thamesandhudson.com
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News August 01, 2011
Round table on the future of museums
TiMe Amsterdam has been invited to moderate a round table with directors of heads of state-funded museums in August. The meeting will take place in the context of the future of the Dutch museums system. The meeting is organized by the association of state-funded museums (VRM) in Amsterdam.
www.derijksmusea.nl
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News July 21, 2011
Gelderland Province supports WW2 Museum
The Provincial Administration of Gelderland decided July 19 decided to support the further development of plans for WW2 Museum in The Netherlands. Gelderland contributes € 50,000 to the second phase of the project plan. Previously, the city of Nijmegen (as proposed location of the museum) has made a first financial contribution. The concept for WW2 had been developed by TiMe Amsterdam ans was presented in November 2010 by the bid book "Museum with a mission seeks partners of meaning '. WW2 Museum is a joint project of three existing Dutch war museums in Oosterbeek, Groesbeek and Overloon. In the plans for the future, they will exist within a heritage chain as so called site museums. The new central museum in Nijmegen will be added to this chain which includes a wide range of battlefields, monuments, war cemeteries and iconic structures and buildings like Arnhems’ Brigde too Far and the Nijmegen Waal Bridge.
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News July 19, 2011
Great public response to Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay
TiMe Amsterdam recieved an impressive report on the public response to the recent exhibition-project in New York City. Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay, was on view at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum from March 18 through June 19, 2011. Originally scheduled to close on June 5, it was extended for two weeks in response to enthusiastic visitor feedback and robust attendance. Cooper-Hewitt published a 204 page catalogue with over 300 color illustrations and photographs and three essays. Delaunay scholar Petra Timmer (TiMe Amsterdam) wrote of the importance of textiles to Delaunay’s career, especially in the 1910s 1930s, when they were the primary medium in which she experimented with color. Matteo de Leeuw-de Monti authored two essays. To date, over 2,900 copies of the catalogue have been sold. The exhibition experienced visitorship of 120,000. The Museum’s web site recorded 9,368 visits for Color Moves and the exhibition landing page received 11,823 page views. Tours and programs were organized to enhance visitors’ experiences with Color Moves. Docents led 205 free public tours (2/day) attended by 3,380 persons. Tours were also offered to K-12 (up to 12 th grade) and university students. The Museum’s school tours program, Tour+Workshop=DESIGN, used Color Moves as its theme. Sixty-seven programs reaching 1,747 students were offered for K-5 (up to 5th grade)
Media coverage for Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay was very positive, with reviews and placements appearing in national and international outlets. Reviews were featured in The New York Times; Financial Times.com; studio-international.co.uk; Art & Auction; and The New York Observer, among others. International coverage appeared in British, French, German, Italian, and Russian publications, among others. Sample press clippings are enclosed.
Advertising and Marketing:
Color Moves was supported by a print and online advertising campaign which reached 173 million people. Print ads appeared in New York Magazine; The New Yorker; TimeOut NY; and Metropolis. An online ad appeared on nytimes.com. A promotional postcard (enclosed) was produced and distributed to local design retailers and design and boutique hotels. Large signs promoting the exhibition appeared on the Museum’s Fifth Avenue fence.
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News, July 05, 2011
Communications planning Tajiri Exhibition 2012
Museum Van Bommel Van Dam in Venlo will present a large exhibition on the work of the artist Shinkichi Tajiri (1923 - 2009) in 2012. Tajiri, during much of his life living and working in Baarlo (near Venlo) is known from the monumental "Guardians" on the river Maas bridge in Venlo. The exhibition takes place during the 2012 World Horticultural Expo Floriade in Venlo. TiMe Amsterdam is asked to deliver a strategic plan which targets the communications and media strategy for the Tajiri show. The communication plan will be delivered end of July.
www.vanbommelvandam.nl
www.floriade.com
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News, June 11, 2011
Annual study trip to United Kindom museum
From June 1 to 8, an ‘inspiration trip’ to the UK took place. This short study trip with visits to best museum practices in the UK has become an annual company tradition. This year visits focused on war museums, especially the branches of the Imperial War Museum. Another subject of special interest: small-scale monographic museums: museums and on site presentations and lieux de mémoire linked to and prepresenting the lives and personal heritage of British writers and artists.
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News, May 31, 2011
Cultural value of museum collections roundt tables
The National Heritage Agency, in The Netherlands (RCE) is currently investigating the cultural value of museum collections. Within this study they want to include the opinion of some decision makers.
RCE asked TiMe Amsterdam to organize and moderate a number of roundtable discussions with these decision makers. (Directors of national heritage funds, aldermen, museum trustees etc.).
The purpose of the interviews is to find out if and how te cultural value of collections affects their considerations and decizions. The results will be used to develop a new, broadly applicable methodology for the cultural value of museum collections.
www.cultureelerfgoed.nl (Movable Heritage Department)
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News, May 28, 2011
Agenda 2026 Netherlands Museums Association
Monday, May 30 the Netherlands Museums Association meets in Dordrecht for its General Assembly. Max Meijer (TiMe Amsterdam) will present an introduction to the project Agenda 2026. In Agenda 2026 six relevant en significant future scenario's for society and the impact on museum field are determined. TiMe Amsterdam was commissioned by the NMV and since 2009 involved in the Agenda 2026 preparations and research. During the Dordrecht meeting decisions on the continuation and implementation of the conclusions will be made.
Link: www.museumvereniging.nl
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News, May 23, 2011
Professional biography Pierre Janssen
Pierre Janssen (1926-2007) was a well known personality in The Netherlands. He combined three high-level professional competencies: art critic, museum director and television producer. For five decades he managed to captivate generations of people with his stories about art. Janssen left his mark on a huge number of articles, lectures, exhibitions and television programs. Petra Timmer and Max Meijer (TiMe Amsterdam) have conceived the plan to capture the significance of Pierre Janssen in a professional biography. TiMe Amsterdam hopes to start the research this autumn. Publication date: late 2013. (Photo: Pierre Janssen, his wife Rie de Boois and Max Meijer at the farewell party of the latter as director of the Arnhem Museum of Modern Art in 2007).
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News, May 12, 2011
TiMe Amsterdam listed in British Museum Services Directory
TiMe Amsterdam was recently included in the Museum Services Directory of the British Museums Association. As a listed supplier TiMe is found in the sections Feasibility Studies, Museum planning consultants and strategic planning. The directory contains approximately 1,200 providers serving the museum and heritage fields. Enthusiastic positioned by the Museums Association under the motto: Working with the right suppliers and consultants can be a key part of making a success of your museum.
Link: http://www.museumsassociation.org/suppliers/find-a-supplier
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Nieuws. May 11, 2011
Feasibility Study Centre for Art, Culture and Landscape, Renkum, The Netherlands
This week the (interim)report of the feasibility study concerning a Centre for Art, Culture and Landscape presented to Alderman Heinrich at the Municipality of Renkum, The Netherlands. The study concludes with some recommendations for the follow-up of the process. During the second phase of the study the outlines of a concept will be developed together with one or more options for some business models.
Link: www.renkum.nl
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Nieuws 10 mei 2011
Opening Paradise Lost
Link: www.espaceenny.nl
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Nieuws, May 06, 2011
New director Netherlands Media Art Institute/Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst
Olof van Winden (b. 1976, Mukumu, Kenya) has been appointed as General - artistic Director of the Netherlands Media Art Institute. Olof van Winden has been director of The Hague Sound/Vision Festival. In 2004 he established The Generator Foundation, an organization of young creative spirits that grew into a professional festival and production platform, from which the adventurous annual TodaysArt Festival in The Hague – among other activities – is organized.
In only a few short years Olof has built up a fascinating list of activities and has gained broad experience on the cutting edge of media art, the performing arts and visual arts. In addition to his work for TodaysArt he sits on committees for the Department of Art and Culture in Rotterdam and for the Mondriaan Foundation.
Max Meijer, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors for the Netherlands Media Art Institute, lets it be known that he is very pleased with the arrival of Olof van Winden, and believes that he will be the ideal successor to Heiner Holtappels: "young and unconventional, with the right mix of experience with cultural entrepreneurship and (media) art, and with a strong international network."
Link: www.nimk.nl
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News May 03, 2011
Presentation Checklist Religious Heritage
Friday, March 29 the Checklist (Moving) Religious Heritage was presented at a symposium on the future of religious heritage in Utrecht.
The text of this publications has heen edited by Petra Timmer (TiMe Amsterdam). The Checklist may be consulted via the Web at: www.handreikingroerendreligieuserfgoed.nl or www.hrre.nl
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News, April 14, 2011
Museumtours online
On Thursday 14 April, the first five pilots of the project Museum Tours have been presented. In the presence of about 100 guests, the project was explained by Toine Berbers, director of the Association of State Subsidized Museums (VRM) and Ties Hilgers, director of the Muiderslot, one of the participating museums. With pride they presented the first five tours, but also spoke in the hope that the coming year can be worked to perfect the digital tool. The organizers are currently in discussion with potential funders and museums that want to participate in this follow-up.
Museum Tours is an innovative tool to make museum exhibitions digitally accessible via the Web. The pilots have been developed by a consortium of companies, including TiMe Amsterdam, with financial support from The Netherlands Ministry of Culture.
The five pilots are accessible through the websites of the participating museums. (Photo: (left) Max Meijer and Evert Nijhoff who presses the red button, (right) Amanda Vollenweider (project leader) and Wilbert Helmus of the Ceramic Museum Princessehof at the presentation in Amsterdam).
The Museum Tours can be visited at:
www.muiderslot.nl
www.princessehof.nl
www.willetholthuysen.nl
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News, April 12, 2011
Heritage Chain Concept for future War Museum
In MMNieuws (Dutch magazine on cultural marketing) 2011, # 2 Max Meijer (TiMe Amsterdam) wrote an essay on the (marketing) backgrounds of the future World War 2 Museum. The entry focuses on the basic concept of the proposed new museum, planned to be built in the city of Nijmegen and the role of the three existing ‘site museums’. The concept reflects the idea op a heritage supply chain. No single stand-alone museums therefore, but museums embedded in a chain of other memory sites, battlefields, traces in the landscape, monuments and cemeteries, connected by trails as the so called ‘Liberation Route’. TiMe Amsterdam developed the overall concept of the World War 2 Museum, in close cooperation with three existing war museums at Oosterbeek, Groesbeek and Overloon.
Download the essay (in Dutch) here: Nieuw concept Museum WO2
Those interested in general concept delevoped by TiMe Amsterdam may download the bidbook:
Bidbook Museum WO2
Link to MMNieuws magazine: www.mmnieuws.nl
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Nieuws 08 april 2011
Tajiri Museum Venlo
In Venlo wordt achter de schermen doorgewerkt om aldaar een Tajiri Museum te vestigen. TiMe Amsterdam is betrokken als adviseur, nadat eerder samen met Rudi Fuchs een inhoudelijk concept werd ontwikkeld voor een zelfstandig museum dat deel zou gaan uitmaken van het Venlose 'Museumkwartier'. De gemeenteraad heeft inmiddels afstand genomen van de plannen voor een breed museumkwartier. Thans worden de mogelijkheden onderzocht om het Tajiri Museum samen met Museum Van Bommel Van Dam onder één dak te vestigen. TiMe Amsterdam (Petra Timmer en Max Meijer) nam op 7 april deel aan een werkatelier van de Gemeente Venlo, waarbij gezamenlijke ontwikkeling van beide instellingen werd verkend.
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News, March 26, 2011
Sonia Delaunay A Conversation among Friends at YouTube
The video of the meeting moderated by Petra on March 19 jl at the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum Design in New York can be viewed YouTube. The video footage takes about 90 minutes. The video can be accessed via this link: Conversation among Friends
Information: www.cooperhewitt.org
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Nieuws 24 maart 2011
Regionale bijeenkomsten Agenda 2026 Nederlandse Museumvereniging
Op 23 maart is in het Apeldoornse CODA de eerste van een reeks regiobijeenkomsten gehouden over agenda 2026, de strategische toekomstverkenning voor de museale sector. Met kleine groepen museumdirecteuren worden de resultaten uit het trendrapport, waar TiMe Amsterdam aan meewerkte, vertaald naar micro- en mesoniveau. Max Meijer gaf in Apeldoorn een presentatie over de zes dominante trends. De komende weken volgen nog drie regiobijeenkomsten in respectievelijk Utrecht, Amsterdam en Eindhoven. Ook daar zal TiMe de trends toelichten. De regiobijeenkomsten worden gemodereerd door Ruben Maes en zijn voorbereid i.s.m. het bureau van de NMV. (foto: ©TiMe2011)
(Zie meer over Ageda 2026 het nieuwsitem hieronder bij Nieuws 30 november 2010)
Meer informatie: www.museumvereniging.nl
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Nieuws 20 maart 2011
Succesvolle opening en randprogramma tentoonstelling Sonia Delaunay in New York
The exhibition Color Moves, Art & Fashion by Sonia Delaunay was opened March 18. More than 500 people were bound for New York's Cooper-Hewitt Museum on 5th Avenue to attend the opening. The day before there was an equally well-attended press preview. The first reviews were extremely positive. New York Times on March 18 stated: “It is the rare museum exhibitionism That bet most of the house on fabric swatches - or, more politely, textile samples - and succeeds. This is the impressive achievement of the "Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay," a sumptuous and enlightening show at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum That May change forever the way you look at dry goods”. Saturday, March 20 the Dutch leading newspaper NRC Handelsblad published a review too . On Friday after the opening Petra Timmer moderated the meeting 'Sonia Delaunay: a conversation among friends' for an audience of about 150 people. Petra Timmer interviewed Eleine Lustig Cohen and Matteo De Leeuw De Monti, on the photograph can be seen together during the meeting. (photo: © TiMe2011)
For the NYT review see: Recensie New York Times
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Nieuws 12 maart 2011
Sculpture Klaas Gubbels in Leidschendam-Voorburg
On March 12 a monumental sculpture by the artist Klaas Gubbels has been revealed. The work titled "In heaven fly" is a composition of about 5 meters high coffee pots painted with sky blue cloud motifs. It refers to the vastness of the polder and completes the redesign of the district Sijtwende. The unveiling was performed by the artist and Alderman Peter Ostaijen (see photos). After the ceremony the audience met in theater Camuz to attend lectures given by Max Meyer (TiMe Amsterdam) Jan Stikvoort (Chief of Police Regional Police Central Holland The work can be seen on the Sijtwende-roundabout at the East End / Dr.Beguinlaan in Leidschendam. (photo: © TiMe2011).
Max Meijers' text (in Dutch) : Inleiding Klaas Gubbels
General information: www.leidschendamvoorburg.nl
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Nieuws 11 maart 2011
TiMe Amsterdam modereert paneldiscussie in New York op 18 maart 2011
Ter gelegenheid van de openingsfestiviteiten van de tentoonstelling Color Moves, Art & Fashion by Sonia Delaunay zal Petra Timmer op vrijdagavond 18 maart in het Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York een paneldiscussie leiden. Onder de titel ‘Sonia Delaunay: A conversation among friends’ spreekt zij met 'getuigen' die Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) gekend hebben. Het gaat daarbij o.a. om Matteo de Leeuw-De Monti, kleinzoon, respectievelijk zoon van Joseph en Hendrik de Leeuw, opdrachtgevers van Sonia Delaunay en destijds eigenaren van Metz & Co en Elaine Lustig Cohen, grafisch vormgeefster en weduwe van Sonia’s eerste professionele biograaf, Arthur Cohen.
Persoonlijke herinneringen aan Sonia Delaunay staan deze avond centraal, om de kunstenares voor een breder publiek tot leven te brengen. Petra Timmer was als adviseur bij de tentoonstelling betrokken en schreef het essay Sonia Delaunay, Fashion and Fabric Designer in de begeleidende publicatie die bij Thames and Hudson verschijnt. De tentoonstelling wordt donderdag 17 maart geopend en duurt tot 5 juni 2011.
Meer informatie: http://cooperhewitt.org/CALENDAR/
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Nieuws 10 maart 2011
Museumtours: pilot museaal innovatieproject 14 april on line
Op 14 april 2011 worden in Amsterdam de eerste vijf pilots van het museale innovatieproject Museumtours gepresenteerd. Het publiek kan via Museumtours via internet museale presentaties bezoeken op een wijze die een real life museumbezoek benadert.
Museumtours is een initiatief van de Promuse & Wehman en TiMe Amsterdam en werd ontwikkeld in het kader van de (voormalige) subsidieregeling innovatie cultuuruitingen van het Ministerie van OCW. Aan het project namen drie Nederlandse musea deel: het Muiderslot, Keramiekmuseum Princessehof te Leeuwarden en Museum Willet-Holthuysen, onderdeel van Museum Amsterdam. De Vereniging van Rijksgesubsidieerde Musea (VRM) trad op als penvoerder. Louter Vormgeving in Amsterdam ontwikkelde de software Museumtours is een uniek experiment. Nog niet eerder was het mogelijk om op deze wijze thuis, of waar dan ook via een PC met internetaansluiting een museum te bezoeken en vrijelijk door een presentatie, of tentoonstelling te navigeren.
Op 14 april worden de eerste vijf experimentele Museumtours feestelijk gepresenteerd in De Verdieping (Trouw gebouw), Wibautstraat 127 Amsterdam. Start programma 17:00 uur. Om 17:30 uur worden de tours met een symbolische handeling de Museumtours online geplaatst. De achtergronden van het project zullen o.a. worden toegelicht door Toine Berbers (directeur VRM).
(foto: Museumtours-opnamen in Keramiekmuseum Princessehof)
Vanaf 14 april zij de tours te zien via: www.muiderslot.nl www.willetholthuysen.nl/ www.princessehof.nl/tentoonstellingen/tentoonstellinggemist
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Nieuws 07 maart 2011
Workshops Ambarawa Spoorwegmuseum (01-04 maart 2011) succesvol afgesloten
De workshops in Semarang (Indonesië) waar TiMe Amsterdam in opdracht van de Rijksdienst voor Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE) als moderator en adviseur aan deelnam zijn op 4 maart succesvol afgesloten. De erfgoeddivisie van de Indonesische spoorwegmaatschapij toonde zich buitengewoon tevreden over de uitkomsten. Aan de workshops werd deelgenomen door spoorweg- en erfgoedspecialisten, architecten, academici en vertegenwoordigers van overheden en toeristisch bedrijfsleven. De nadruk lag op het doorontwikkelen van het nationale spoorwegmuseum in Ambarawa (midden Java). Tijdens de workshops is vooral aandacht besteed aan het ontwikkelen van een erfgoedtoeristische keten, museologische basisconcepten en de noodzaak tot een integrale aanpak. Daarbij nemen publieke en private partijen, in samenspraak en samenwerking met lokale gemeenschappen, de revitalisering van het museum en het omliggende gebied ter hand. Aan de hand van best practices uit verschillende landen en een aantal mogelijke (en zeer uiteenlopende) museale concepten werden de kansen voor de revitalisering van het museum in de vaak zeer levendige werksessies nader verkend. Op korte termijn zal het verslag van de workshops gereed komen en door de RCE bekeken worden welke follow up wenselijk en mogelijk is. De Nederlandse delegatie bestond uit Ben de Vries, Arjen Kok (RCE) en Max Meijer (TiMe Amsterdam in opdracht van de RCE).
Meer informatie: www.cultureelerfgoed.nl / www.indonesianheritagerailway.com
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Nieuws 06 maart 2011
Afronding opdracht Catharijneconvent
De komende jaren sluiten veel kerken en kloosters hun deuren. Dit vraagt niet alleen om een strategie voor de herbestemming van de gebouwen, maar ook om een visie op de omgang met de vrijkomende religieuze voorwerpen. Welke hiervan zijn waardevol vanuit religieus, emotioneel, cultureel of historisch oogpunt? En wat moet er bij een kerkfusie met deze religieuze voorwerpen gebeuren?
Museum het Catharijneconvent, de Stichting Kerkelijk Kunstbezit in Nederland (SKKN) besloten, samen met vertegenwoordigers en medewerkers uit diverse kerkgenootschappen en erfgoedinstellingen, een Handreiking bij het herbestemmen/afstoten van roerend religieus erfgoed samen te stellen. In oktober 2010 vroegen zij TiMe Amsterdam (Petra Timmer) om op basis van aangeleverd materiaal de tekst van deze Handreiking te bewerken tot een toegankelijk, overzichtelijk en bruikbaar instrument. Deze opdracht heeft zij op 1 maart 2011 afgerond.
De Handreiking Roerend Religieus Erfgoed bestaat uit een Inleiding, een Waarderingskader en een Stappenplan Herbestemmen/Afstoten. Met dit hulpmiddel kunnen eigenaren/beheerders hun bezit naar religieuze, culturele en historische waarde (laten) schatten, waardevol erfgoed voor de toekomst behouden, via een zorgvuldige procedure herbestemmen of wat minder waardevol is afstoten. Op vrijdag 29 april wordt in het Catharijneconvent (Utrecht) tijdens een symposium over roerend religieus erfgoed de Handreiking gepresenteerd.
Meer informatie: www.catharijneconvent.nl of www.skkn.nl
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Nieuws 23 februari 2011
Internationalisering: samenwerking Projekt 2508
TiMe Amsterdam gaat samenwerken met het Duitse bureau Projekt 2508. Samen met Martine Willekens van Peperoffice in Amsterdam gaat TiMe bureau 2508 in Nederland vertegenwoordigen en als Nederlandse vestiging fungeren. Peperoffice richt zich daarbij hoofdzakelijk op de culturele marketing en communicatie, terwijl TiMe zich toespitst op grensoverschrijdende museale- en tentoonstellingsadvisering en conceptontwikkeling. Internationale projecten in de Duitstalige landen zullen in de toekomst onder het label Project 2508 worden uitgevoerd. Project 2508, met vestigingen in Bonn, Berlijn, Stockholm en Antwerpen, is actief op het terrein van culturele marketing, public relations, tentoonstellings- en museumconcepten en advisering. Door de samenwerking kan niet alleen expertise worden gedeeld en verbreed, maar ook wederzijds gebruik worden gemaakt van de netwerken en acquisitiekracht van de betrokken partijen. Informatie over de Projekt 2508 Group en hun activiteiten vind u hier: Projekt 2508 Group. Het is de bedoeling dat de samenwerking tijdens de komende international travel trade show ITB (9 - 13 maart) in Berlijn officieel wordt gepresenteerd op de Culture Lounge die project 2508 aldaar organiseert.
Informatie over de ITB: www.messe-berlin.de
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Nieuws 13 februari 2