User-centered. Explorative. Open.
NEO Collections — Digital Museum Collections in the 21st Century
In 2020 the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, the Übersee-Museum Bremen and the Nationalmuseum Sweden set out to rethink the way museum collections are curated, enriched and accessed.
Our collaboration is based on the principles of open access and participation. Together with visitors, users, experts and (critical) friends and all kinds of creatives and technologists we are co-creating prototypes for digital formats and products that will simplify and diversify access to our digital collections and enable their reuse in many ways.
As three different museums, varying in size, structure, focus and digital maturity we all follow our own individual approaches to the same goal:
Finding new ways of working together — with communities, within our organizations, with interdisciplinary teams and across museums.
NEO Collections is not a project developing the next shiny digital toys, but our way of approaching digital transformation in our museums.
Blog
On this blog we will regularly share our ideas and learnings from our journey. You’ll find project updates from our project partners and our colleagues as well as from our network of international experts and friends.
Team
Antje Schmidt, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Project Lead
Etta Grotrian, Übersee-Museum Bremen
Karin Glasemann, Nationalmuseum Sweden (2020–03/2022)
Marleen Grasse, Project Coordinator, marleen.grasse@mkg-hamburg.de Eva Maria Bongardt, Nationalmuseum Sweden
Abhay Adhikari, Digital Identities, Digital Partner
Advisory Board
Katrin Glinka, HCC Data Lab, FU Berlin
David Haskiya, Riksarkivet Swedish National Archives
Lizzy Jongma, Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen
Andrea Wallace, University of Exeter
NEO Collections is funded by the Digital Culture Programme of the German Federal Cultural Foundation funded by The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media until the end of 2023.
Header Image
From left to right
- Fliesen vom Mausoleum des Buyan Kuli Chan, MK&G, Public Domain
- Vase, Berndt Frieberg, Nationalmuseum, CC BY-SA 4.0, Foto: Bertil Wreting / Nationalmuseum
- Parides Eurimedes Timias, CC BY-SA 4.0 Übersee-Museum Bremen, Foto: Volker Beinhorn
- Hübbe’sche Haus. Ferdinandstr. 65, Hamburg. Entwurf der Konsole für Standfigur, Theodor Bülau, MK&G, Public Domain
- Hölzerne Figur aus Melanesien, CC BY-SA 4.0 Übersee-Museum Bremen, Foto: Volker Beinhorn
- Apple Tree in Flower. Motif from Barbizon (detail), Axel Lindman, Nationalmuseum, CC0, Public Domain
- Pferd Pyramiden der Mädchen, Vielleicht von Heinrich Hamann, MK&G, Public Domain
- Textil “Bird”, William Morris, Nationalmuseum, CC BY-SA 4.0, Foto: Linn Ahlgren / Nationalmuseum
- Kaffeedose Jacobs, CC BY-SA 4.0 Übersee-Museum Bremen, Foto: Volker Beinhorn
