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Internship in Corona-times: My experience at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

In this blog I’d like to tell you about my internship at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam for modern and contemporary art during Corona-times

Antiquities behind closed doors

Always wondered what happens behind the closed doors of a museum that has closed because of corona virus? Museums around the world are thinking of creative ways to keep their collections available online but also think of new ways to improve the visitor’s experience once they reopen.

An Ode to Social Media in Times of Crisis

How do you remain active as a study association during the stay-at-home-times? Two words: Social Media. Explore how de L.K.V., a student-led association, transforms their activities from physical to digital.

Exhibition or haunted house?!

In the course Curating Cultures students are asked to imagine how curators communicate specialist knowledge with a broader audience. Wakana Kaita shares her experience.

Student Experiences

Studying (art)history in Florence and Rome

History student Sjoerd Ramackers went to Italy with the Minor Rome-Florence to study its art and history for four months. Sjoerd recounts his experience as a historian learning about art history and its methods on site in Rome and Florence.

Exhibitions

VAN EYCK 2020: OMG! I was there.

A student recounts his visit to the Jan van Eyck-exhibition in Ghent, organised in honour of the Van Eyck Year 2020. The largest exhibition ever about the most famous and mysterious Early Netherlandish master!