Museumssenteret i Salhus

The museum centre in Salhus is a gem of a museum! Situated in an old textile factory it has beautiful locations and interesting permanent collections that are well presented. In the glass on the photo you can see the reflections of the windows overlooking the harbour. When in Bergen take the trip!

Mexican Pretzel

In the series of mixed food; I came across this Mexican Pretzel on the trainstation in Leicester...

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Three focus areas

• Potatoes (or should it be tomatoes? Annechen said the use of tomato in Norwegian cuisine has exploded...)
• Spices (only one spice? like cinnamon?)
• Chocolate!!! (ofc!) (Milkchocolate - a small piece of Norway...(?))

Webinar

I just ended the last of four webinars based on the book "Digital Museum - transforming the future now."

I wanted to join the webinar also because I was interested in the format. And I must say it was quite a pleaseant way of being at a seminar, while still enjoying the comforts of my best chair ;-)

A lecture these days is normally a PowerPoint presentation and a voice, and so this was not so different. I guess the major difference was the lack of smalltalk in the coffee-break... networking not being so obvious... but still happening through the chat window. :-)
And my questions were answered :-)

It was also quite nice to get an extended overview over what is happening, particularly on social networking sites and how some museums are using them. For some art museums the use and also the benefits are obvious, but for history and cultural museums there are also ways. Maybe ways that are even more interesting - like this example from Museum of London's "London's Voices" exhibition.

Going into production!

The time has come to move the project into production. We will start the development of the "smell/picture" and the "how are you connected to the world" installations. The timeframe we have - with opening in march next year - forces us to focus. Which is a good thing.

For a while now I have felt as if the installation needed more ideas... but it was allways intended to be a small installation in order to have time and means to work out the details. A small gem.

So I have decided to start the production by contacting the following for consultations:

BEK - Bergen center for Electronic Art - for the interactive elements of the installations. Because they are the most experienced on interactivity in a 3d space.

Tveit&Tornøe - For ideas on the physical structures of the installation. Because they are energetic, creative and available. They are here in the same workspace that I am at KhiB, which makes contacting them low-threshold.

For the development of the script I have already spoken to Nina Svane-Mikkelsen who also wrote the script for Havlandet. Because she is the only one (in Bergen at least) who actually understands writing scripts for exhibitions. And her own PhD is focusing on exhibitions and new media.

Kulturminneåret 2009

Next year is the The Norwegian Year of Cultural Heritage 2009, and they are focusing on cultural heritage in Everyday life, and writes that

One approach involves highlighting the development of cultural heritage in Norway.

Sounds like Fiskeboller should be part of that?! :-)

Prøvekluten

Prøvekluten at Høgskolen i Volda has accepted Fiskeboller as one of their projects this year :-) We are invited to spend time in Volda in June this year.

Hordaland fylkeskommune did not find it in their hearts (or budget) to give us the 50 000,- we applied for... not surprising; there are many projects applying and little money to be handed out :-)