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Schmidt, Antje and Beyerle, Tulga (Eds.): NEO Collections: From Reimagining Digital Collections to Transforming Museum Practices / Von der Neugestaltung digitaler Sammlungen zur Veränderung von Museumspraktiken, Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net, 2025. https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1558

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https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1558
ISBN 978-3-98501-326-5 (PDF)

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07/21/2025

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Antje Schmidt (Ed.), Tulga Beyerle (Ed.)

NEO Collections

From Reimagining Digital Collections to Transforming Museum Practices / Von der Neugestaltung digitaler Sammlungen zur Veränderung von Museumspraktiken

With the NEO Collections project, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G), together with the Übersee-Museum Bremen and the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm set out to reimagine access to their collections and discover new ways of working - with each other, within the museums and with multidisciplinary teams and external communities. 
The publication explores the challenges of the open approach and the opportunities to engage meaningfully with the collections. The focus lies on the different methods and formats explored during the project at the MK&G, such as a fellowship and a data exploration sprint.

Antje Schmidt is an art historian and Head of Digital Strategy at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G), where she has been working with her colleagues on sustainable digital museum practice since 2012. She is particularly interested in co-creative knowledge production and open data.

Tulga Beyerle is Director of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg (MK&G). With a background in design, she worked as a freelance design curator from 2001 to 2013. From 2007 to 2013 she was Co-Director of Vienna Design Week and from 2014 to 2018 Director of the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.

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Table of Contents
Pages
PDF
Titelei
Inhalt
Tulga Beyerle
Editorial/Editorial
8-10
Antje Schmidt
Intro/Intro
11-19
Antje Schmidt
Designing for Meaningful Engagement/Design für sinnstiftendes Engagement
20-29
Antje Schmidt
Trust the Process and Trust as a Process/Vertraue dem Prozess und Vertrauen als Prozess
30-43
Lauren Vargas
Constantly Recalibrating Relevance
44-47
Antje Schmidt
NEO Meets…
48-51
Andrea Wallace
Digitization is Not Neutral
52-55
Marleen Grasse
Embracing Digital: A Curator’s View
56-61
Marleen Grasse
Users are Humans, Too!
62-67
Christian Gries, Adrian Kingston
Learning About Fast-Moving Audience Needs and More Meaningful Measures
68-73
Antje Schmidt
Getting Outside the Museum Bubble and Into Discovery Mode
74-85
Wana Udobang
Using Emotion to Breathe Life Into Museum Collections
86-91
Antje Schmidt
More than a Hundred Ways to Specify “Blumen”
92-103
Antje Schmidt, Marleen Grasse, Philo van Kemenade, Igor Rjabinin
Feed Your Curiosity - Exploring One Ornament at a Time
104-111
Imprint
112

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