msa@smk.dk
@msanderhoff
Making COMMON SENSE
with our shared cultural heritage
Common Sense, Antwerp
6 December 2022
New obligations for GLAMs
in a digitized society
“Cultural spaces (…) are asylums for culture – which is what gives
meaning to our individual and collective lives – and permanent
laboratories where new forms of political participation and self-
organization are experimented with.
EU policies [should] value culture as a tool to give people – and
particularly disadvantaged ones – powers of expression and
decision-making able to truly change everyone’s living conditions.
“
De Tullio, Cultural Spaces as Drivers for Participation. Towards a European Participatory Guarantee System for Commons, in
Volont, Leister, Gielen (ed.), The Rise of the Common City, ASP editions 2022
National Gallery of Denmark
Western art from 1300 to present day
260,000 artworks
66 % in public domain
We want to be a catalyst
of users’ creativity
SMK’s first digital strategy
2008
smk.dk/en/section/about-smk/
Democratization
“Through encounters with the art, SMK paves
the way for experiences and bold conversations
that include more – and more diverse – citizens.
SMK wants to build and strengthen communities
where we, as humans, can reflect on our own being,
on each other, and the world we are all part of.
“
The museum as a platform
for cultural democracy
Our online collection is a key resource
open.smk.dk
Increased democratic searchability
through AI and machine learning
SMK’s collection 3D scanned by
volunteers at Scan The World
+ 38,000 images and scans
Facilitating diverse
users’ needs and purposes
SMK KOM
Community of people from all over the world who want to
learn Danish or help others practice their language skills
Weekly meetups at the museum since 2017-22,
online during Covid19 lockdowns
Conversations centered around ‘the common third’ – the art
SMK Fridays
Monthly evening events
Free entrance for all
Turn the museum into an
experimental cross-cultural lab
Collage workshop at SMK Fridays
November 2019
We at SMK
Online forum for young people with cancer
Creative exercises based in SMK artworks
Sharing experiences based in the common third
Partnership with PS! - a writers school
for mentally vulnerable
Asger Jorn, modification of a drawing by
Renoir, 1948-49, SMK
“I experienced that there is
a forum for people like me,
and that you can use a museum
in different ways.
We at SMK made us get active.”
Emma, participant
Art and Culture for All
Creative workshop at summer camps for socially disadvantaged families
Workshop and tour of SMK for the families
Children’s Workshop in-a-bag to take home
150 children and their parents participated in 2021
Reaching families who don’t normally relate to museums
Young People’s Art Labs
Community of young people
Weekly meetups at SMK
Creative interventions based in the collection
SKYEN
Redesign of
injection room
in central Cph
Co-creation between art pilots
and users of Skyen
From sterile anonymity
to ownership and sensemaking
with non-users of museums
Taboo workshop
Make the invisible visible
>100 participants
students 15-19 years
Workshop focus on dialogue,
collaboration and process
Wiki Labs Culture
Monthly meetups physical and virtual
Co-creation of an open knowledge source
Volunteers and heritage professionals
collaborate as peers
The Hirschsprung Collection
SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst
Copenhagen City Archive
The Thorvaldsen Museum
The Danish Film Institute
+37 million page views
per year
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FindingGLAMs/GLAM_statistics
+140,000 GLAMs worldwide
gemaeldegalerie.skd.museum/ausstellungen/
vermeer-johannes-vermeers-dresdner-briefleserin
-am-offenen-fenster-und-die-hollaendische
-genremalerei-des-17-jahrhunderts/
gemaeldegalerie.skd.museum/ausstellungen/
vermeer-johannes-vermeers-dresdner-briefleserin
-am-offenen-fenster-und-die-hollaendische
-genremalerei-des-17-jahrhunderts/
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briefleserin_am_offenen_Fenster
How can we get more cultural spaces
to be platforms for political participation,
self-organization and sense-making?
smk.dk/en/section/about-smk/
Ethos
Realities
rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-2344
Impact
pro.europeana.eu/page/europeana-impact-playbook
Cultural spaces for
participation and sense-making
that inspire our work
www.demokratigarage.dk
Demokrati Garage
Læseforeningen
www.laeseforeningen.dk
Scandinavian Cello School
www.scandinaviancelloschool.com
pro.europeana.eu/europeana-network-association
Europeana Network Association
We need strong policies
that defend the rights of the public
and increase access and participation
communia-association.org/policy-recommendations/
communia-association.org/policy-recommendations/
Article 14 states that faithful reproductions of
works of visual art which are in the public domain
must stay in the public domain.
Bedankt voor het woord
msa@smk.dk
@msanderhoff
Common Sense, Antwerp
6 December 2022

Making Common Sense with our Shared Cultural Heritage