The Dutch Golden Age
The debate in keeping terms
Earlier on 13 February 2020, the six part lecture series about the Dutch Golden Age at Museum Voorschoten kicked off. This is a small regional museum that I volunteer at. It created quite an uproar, with people feeling attacked, other lecturers pulling out from the series and many complaints afterwards to the museum. I unpacked the lecture and the events that happened after.
Tascha Sciarone — writing and having coffee
I am Tascha Sciarone, better known here at the gallery as the eldest sister of the sisters Sciarone and the gallery manager. I also have a Masters Degree in Art History, from Leiden University. Where I specialised in Museums and Collections. That is, I immerse myself in how museums present their collections.
Museum Voorschoten is our lecture hall and together with historian Huub Breur from Amsterdam University and artist Afsaneh Taghevi we have prepared a lecture series about the Dutch Golden Age. We decided on this topic, because 2019 was a big year for Rembrandt, but also the year that Amsterdam Museum created a minor political and cultural stir, after announcing that they will no longer be making use of the term “Dutch Golden Age” in their exhibtions about the seventeenth century.
