Metamorphosis: The transformation of Dutch Museums
Synopsis
In 1990 the then Minister for Culture, Hedy d’Ancona, issued the Delta Plan for Cultural Preservation: a large-scale and national program to thoroughly improve collection storage conditions in Dutch museums. This signalled the start of a transformation of the Dutch museum.he reason for this radical transformation of Dutch museums was the pending privatization of the country’s national museums. From the beginning of the 1990s, national museums had to stand on their own feet. That gave the museum visitor a new position: the museums were forced to engage the public and did so with conviction. This new approach bore fruit: the public has been flocking to museums in increasing numbers and by doing so, have further transformed the Dutch museum. Museums want to open up their collections to everyone while protecting these collections as well as possible. To align these ambitions Dutch museums have engaged in an unprecedented construction boom. The desire to be able to study the results of those building activities brought the TUDelft to approach the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE) to undertake a joint investigation into the transformation of museums in the Netherlands since 1990 together.
This book is part of a series of books produced in cooperation with and financed by the Stichting Rondeltappe-Bernoster-Kemmers. All books of the series have been reviewed and edited by Silvia Naldini, Section of Heritage & Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Downloads
References
Alexander, J. C., Cultural Pragmatics: Social Performance Between Ritual and Strategy, in Alexander J. C., Giesen B., & Mast J. L. (Eds.), 'Social Performance. Social Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual', Cambridge & New York, Cambridge University Pres, 2016, pp. 29-90. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511616839.002
Ankersmit, B. and M. H. L. Stappers, Managing Indoor Climate Risk, Switzerland, Springer International Publishing, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34241-2
Barrett, Jennifer, Museums, Human Rights, and Universalism Reconsidered in 'The International Handbooks of Museums Studies. Museum Theory', edited by Andrea Witcomb and Kyly Message, Vol. 1,, 93-115. Oxford, John Wiley & Sons, 2005 https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118829059.wbihms106
Bennet, T., The Birth of the Museum. History, Theory, Politics, London, Routledge 1995
Bourdieu, P., Darbel, A., & Schnapper, D. , The Love of Art. European Art Museums and their Public. Cambridge, Polity Press, 1991
Brand, S. How buildings learn. New York, Penguin, 1994
Brand, S., The clock of the long now: time and responsibility, London, Phoenix, 1999
Brokerhof, A., Risk management for collections, RCE, 2017
CL Informatie 10, 1992
Clifford, James, Museums as Contact Zones, In 'Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century, 188-219', Cambridge, Harvard University Press 1997
Criminaliteit en preventie in Nederlandse musea, In opdracht van het Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschappen door Intomart, 2000
Deltaplan voor het cultuurbehoud. Onderdeel: plan van aanpak achterstanden musea, archieven, monumentenzorg, archeologie, Rijswijk, Ministerie van Welzijn, Volksgezondheid en Cultuur 1990. ISBN 9034622843
Eelman N. & Etman O., Veiligheidszorg in Nederlandse musea. Een inventarisatie, N.i.o.v. het Ministerie van Justitie, 1992
Ferretti M., La forma del museo, in: Emiliani A., 'I musei, Milano', Touring Club Italiano, 1980
Giebelhausen M., Museum Architecture: A Brief History in 'A Companion to Museum Studies', Macdonald S. (Ed.) West Sussex", Wiley-Blackwell 2011
Griesser-Stermscheg M., Tabu Depot. Das Museumdepot in: 'Geschischte Und Gegenwart', Wien, Köln, Weimar, Böhlau Verlag, 2013
Handleiding voor het maken van een museaal calamiteitenplan, CL Informatie 10, 1992
Hein, George E., Museum Education, in 'A Companion to Museum Studies', Macdonald S. (Ed.), 340-352. West Sussex, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470996836.ch20
Henning, M., New Media, in 'A Companion to Museum Studies', Macdonald S. (Ed.), 302-318. West Sussex, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470996836.ch18
Hoebink D., Erfgoed als Schouwspel, Over musea als opvoeringen van gemeenschapsculturen, PhD thesis Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Jan. 2016. Available at https://repub.eur.nl/pub/79796 (English summary on pages 174-182).
Horgan C., Museum Collection Storage, Paris, UNESCO , acts of ICOM and UNESCO Conference Museum Storage, Washington 1976
Johnson E.V. and Horgan J. C., Museum Collection Storage, Paris, UNESCO, 1979 (Museum Storage -Washington 1976, organized by ICOM and UNESCO)
Jonge De, W., Sleeping Beauty, in: Kuipers, M. & De Jonge, W., Designing fromHeritage. Strategies for Conservation and Conversion, TU Delft - Heritage and Architecture, Delft, 2017
Jütte, B. A. H. G, Passieve conservering; klimaat en licht, Centraal Laboratorium voor Onderzoek van Voorwerpen van Kunst en Wetenschap 1994
Kennedy E., A cultural history of the French Revolution, Binghamton, Vail-Ballou Press, NY 1989
Kidd, Jenny, The Museum as Narrative Witness. Heritage Performance and the Production of Narrative Space, in 'Museum Making. Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions', Macleod S., Hourston Hanks L and Hale J. (Eds), 74-82. Oxon, Routledge, 2002
Kirby Talley Jr. M., The Delta Plan: a nationwide rescue operation, in 'Museum International' (UNESCO, Paris), No. 201, (Vol. 51, No.1), Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 1999 https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0033.00185
Knell, S. J., Macleod S.and Watson S., Introduction , in 'Museum Revolutions. How Museums Change and are Changed', Knell, S.J., Macleod S. and Watson S., xix-xxvi. Oxon, Routledge, 2007 https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203932643
Lameere J., La conception et l'organisation moderne des musées d'art et d'histoire, in 'Mouseion, bulletin de l'Office International des Musées', n° 12, 1930
Loddo M., Museum Storage Facilities: what's next?, in 'ICAR - International Journal of Young Conservators and Restorers of Works of Art', Warsaw, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Issue 2, 2018
Loddo M., Storage facilities for the collections of art museums: experiences in Italy and ongoing debates and perspectives after WWII, Doctorate in Preservation of the Architectural Heritage of the Politecnico di Milano, PhD thesis supervised by P. C. Marani and M. Fratelli, 2019
Macdonald S., Expanding Museum Studies: An Introduction In 'A Companion to Museum Studies', Macdonald S. (Ed.) 1-12. West Sussex, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470996836.ch1
Mairesse F. and Desvallées A., Brève histoire de la muséologie, des inscriptions au musée virtuel, in. P. A. Mariaux (Ed.), "L'objet de la muséologie, Institut d'histoire de l'art et de Muséologie", Neuchâtel 2005, pp. 1-53.
Martens, M. H. J., Climate risk assessment in museums: degradation risks determined from temperature and relative humidity data, Dissertation, Technical University Eindhoven, 2012
Mason, Rhiannon, Cultural Theory and Museum Studies in 'A Companion to Museums Studies', Macdonald S. (Ed.), 17-32. West Sussex, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470996836.ch2
McClellan, A., The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao. Berkeley (CA), University of California Press 2008
Musées. Enquête internationale sur la réforme des galeries publiques, dirigée par George Wildenstein, in 'Cahiers de la République des Lettres des Sciences et des Arts', no. 13, 1930
Peek M. & Cremers T., Handleiding voor het maken van een calamiteitenplan voor collectiebeherende instellingen, ICN, 2003
Peek, M.F.J., Theft in museums in the Netherlands - facts and figures to support Collection Risk Management, Preprints of the ICOM-CC 16th Triennial Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011
Pennock J.B., Het risicobeheer in twintig verzelfstandigde rijksmusea. Een inventarisatie, Inspectie Cultuurbezit, 2000
Pine, B. Joseph, & Gilmore, James, The experience economy (Updated ed.). Boston, Mass., Harvard Business Review Press, 2011
Proctor, N. Mobile in Museums. From Interpretation to Conversation, in 'The International Handbooks of Museum Studies. Museum Media', Henning M. (Ed.),, Oxford, John Wiley & Sons, 2015., Vol. 3, pp. 499-525 https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118829059.wbihms322
Rapport Rijksmusea (n.a.v. onderzoek Algemene Rekenkamer), Tweede Kamer, vergaderjaar 1987-1988 (20697), 1988
Rectanus, Mark W., Globalization: Incorporating the Museum, in 'A Companion to Museum Studies', Macdonald S. (Ed.), West-Sussex, Wiley-Blackwell 2011, p. 381-397 https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470996836.ch23
Reinach S., Musées, bibliothèques et hypogées, in 'Revue Archéologique', no. 2, 1909, pp. 267-270
Roos, J., Discovering the assignment, Delft, VSSD/R-MIT, 2007Sandell, R. and Nightingale E.. Museums, Equality and Social Justice, Oxon, Routledge, 2012
Sandell R. and Janes R.R., Complexity and Creativity in Contemporary Museum Management, in 'Museum Management and Marketing', SandellR. and Janes R. R. (Eds.), 1-14. Oxon, Routledge 2007 https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203964194
Schaulager Laurenz Foundation, retrieved from https://www.schaulager.org/en/schaulager/concept, (accessed: 24 October, 2017
Schechner, R., Performance Studies. An Introduction, 2nd Edition. New York & Milton Park, Routledge, 2006
Schubert K., Museo: storia di un'idea dalla rivoluzione francese a oggi, English version The curator's egg: the evolution of the museum concept from the French revolution to the present day, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 2004
Smith, L.. Uses of Heritage. Oxo,: Routledge, 2006 https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203602263
Sozzani, L., An economical design for a microclimate vitrine for painting using the picture frame as the primary housing, in: 'Journal of the American Institute for Conservation', 2, 1997, pp. 95-107 https://doi.org/10.1179/019713697806373163
Thiel Van P. J. J. Van, Bruyn de Kops C. J., Cleveringa J., Kloek W., Vels Heijn A., All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. A completely illustrated catalogue, Maarssen, Gary Schwartz, 1976
Thomas, N.,. The Return to Curiosity: What museums are good for in the 21st century,London, Reaktion Books, 2006
Tilman, H., Zoeken naar architectuur, 'De Architect', March 2019
Tobelem, J.-M., The Marketing Approach in Museums, Museum Management and Curatorship (Elsevier), 1998 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0260-4779(98)00008-9
Vergo, P. Introduction In "The New Museology", Vergo, P. (Ed.) 1-5. London, Reaktion Books, 1989
Verner J. E. & Horgan J.C., Museum Collection Storage. UNESCO, Paris 1979
Visser Travagli A.M., Musei: Esposizione, Servizi, Depositi. Per Una Nuova Strategia Di Integrazione, in Muttillo B., Cangemi M., Peretto, 'Le risorse invisibili. La gestione del patrimonio archeologico e scientifico tra criticità e innovazione', Annali dell'Università di Ferrara, Mus. Sci. Nat., Ferrara 11 January 2015
Voor het kalf verdronken is. Handleiding voor het maken van een museaal calamiteitenplan, CL Informatie 10, 1992
Wildenstein G., Musées. Enquête internationale sur la réforme des galeries publiques, in 'Cahiers de la République des Lettres des Sciences et des Arts', n° 13, 1930
Witcomb, A., Interactivity: Thinking Beyond, in 'A Companion to Museum Studies', Macdonald S. (Ed.), 353-361. West Sussex, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470996836.ch21
Wittlin A. S., The museum. Its history and its tasks in education, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul Limited, 1949
