Page 157 - Museums News Today

Children and adults will get lost in the creative fun.

My goodness, look at this place. what an incredible space! yeah, you like it? its open storage. museums, they have a collection that you show maybe just 3 to 6 to 7%. but that feels awkward because many things sink into oblivion, or do not get the care that is necessary. so we opened our vaults with all the art collections to the audience, and we show how we work with the collection to clean paintings, to restore things that are not in a good shape. its the audience who is the owner, and we are ...

Although they dont have to be concerned about this place. the british museum currently holds the largest collection of bronzes in the world, with no plans to return any. in a statement sent to the travel show, they say that the collections offer an important opportunity for audiences to understand the history of the british conquest of benin city. and to reflect on the impact of that period of colonialism. undoubtedly, these points of view dont sit too well back in nigeria. the whole world knows...

Yeah, and, yeah, yeah, yeah. and theyre like very, like, prying eyes. its a fun part of the job, yeah. just while ive been here, i think ive probably seen a dozen artworks ive never seen before that utterly captivate me, theyre incredible. what an amazing way to see art, so different. well, i think it would take me days to see everything, but what an intriguing concept. thank you, christa. well, another big trend thats happening with museums, particularly here in the west, is asking whether cert...

On art made by blind people. finally, in tokyo, you can walk through water and become one with the flowers. visitors are invited to immerse their entire bodies in the vast artworks which change under the presence of people, blurring the perception of boundaries between the self and the works. still to come on the travel show... ..taking transparency to a whole new level. and should they stay or should they go? the discussion around these continues. so dont go away. right now, were heading just n...

The depot boijmans van beuningen. its the worlds first publicly accessible art storage facility. and from the outside, it looks a bit like a giant space age teacup. so i wonder what the insides going to look like? after flooding forced the museum to move the collection out of its usual storage facility, the team rethought the entire concept of an archive. gone was the idea of a warehouse with a security guard and a dog. replaced by a concept based on radical transparency. my goodness, look at th...

Do you think your generation, i mean, not necessarily you, but didnt your generation carry some guilt in a way for letting this perpetuate, for letting this keep going? this this old imagery, this old view of africa? guilt, you know, it was all part of the system. when i was at school as a young kid, you know, at primary and secondary school, most of our teachers were former missionaries. and they told all about the good things that they did and that they were debting. so they basically told us ...

Very good. thank you. applause now, the museum here in belgium isnt the only one looking at ways to be more engaging and to challenge ideas of what a traditional museum should be like. so here are some more examples of museums around the world aiming to shake things up a bit. explore a world without plastic, all from the comfort of your own home. the museum of plastic 2121 is a virtual exhibition aiming to illustrate why we need to tackle waste and clean up our oceans. you can download it for fr...

In a museum or heard about the benin bronzes in the media. in the past year, dozens of museums across the west have either agreed to, or are in the process of, returning them back to nigeria. its estimated around 10,000 pieces were taken by the british during a punitive expedition to benin in 1897. the bronzes were then sold to institutions around the world. now theres no law in the uk which forces museums or other places to return stolen artefacts. but some institutions are doing it independent...

Right now, were heading just next door to the netherlands, to the dutch city of rotterdam, which just happens to be europes largest seaport, but its also gaining reputation for adopting a radical new approach to looking at art in museums, as christa found out last year, when she went there for the travel show. the depot boijmans van beuningen. its the worlds first publicly accessible art storage facility. and from the outside, it looks a bit like a giant space age teacup. so i wonder what the in...