Totally agree with Susana, I saw the most beautiful and interesting presentation at the conference where I spoke in the US last week. It was about evocative objects and the museum and it really fits with what your posted. I’ll tell you all about it on Thursday when we meet!

Cheers!

/B

@both: Yes, I know, there are lots of interesting projects going on in the Danish museum world – Det Digitale SMK springs to mind, Arbejdermuseet has built a virtual world around Carlsberg, Tilbygningen at Thorvaldsens uses interactive storytelling, Struer Museum invites user participation (albeit not through the use of social media), looking forward to seeing Brede Værk in action come May etc. – and there are probably loads of projects that I am not aware of (so maybe I’m the one who should look around before critizicing).
And maybe the innovators of the museum world are not actually the worst culprits; it’s just this general consensus in Denmark that we hold the patent for getting it right that means we are sometimes less inclined to take inspiration from others.
Either way, I would have loved to see some more Danish institutions represented at the conference. To showcase our best work and most innovative ideas in order to get feedback from professionals with relevant experience and to boost our culture/innovation profile. And because there are so many sessions and discussions going at the conference, that it would have been great to bring home more than one perspective, to be able to continue the discussion back in Denmark. Even for networking with each other; I know that was a great benefit for the Dutch contingency, although of course crossing the Atlantic to meet up with your colleagues is a luxury you can’t afford on public funding. Still the solution might be to allocate public funding for international knowledgesharing, so that each instituition would not have to find the funds in their own too-meagre budgets.
As for the paper article, I’m not sure if I’m still too much of an upstart outsider to spark that debate, both with regards to authority and impact, and not least that it could be a very bad career move…

I cannot tell why Politiken calls the “Culture Pearls” a world sensation, could be due to cut and paste from a little too positive press release …

Writing a short article to one of the bigger papers sounds like a really good idea, if you want to, Rikke, I am in

Anyway, could you get back to me when you get back, I would love to invite you for a lunch at a place of your choice and hear a little more about the conference, the current trends and of course your master’s thesis: bs [at] koenigsnizek [döt] .org . I tried to submit a paper there too but wasn’t admitted, they’d rather had non-public players buy a booth at the exhibition which was a little to expensive for my taste.