{"id":4693,"date":"2016-11-07T13:37:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T13:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=4693"},"modified":"2016-11-07T13:37:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T13:37:07","slug":"the-dutch-museumnacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/the-dutch-museumnacht\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dutch Museumnacht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">If you wander through a museum, you will agree with me: there are not that many young people most of the time. It is the same in the Netherlands, where museums try hard to get young people interested to go to museums &#8211; and they come up with some interesting initiatives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<div style=\"width: 808px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/7soKw5\" aria-label=\"4236808364 75d7dd173b B\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\"  alt=\"Stadsarchief of Amsterdam (Image by Jan de Boer at Flickr.com under license CC BY ND 2.0)\" width=\"798\" height=\"534\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2630\/4236808364_75d7dd173b_b.jpg\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Stadsarchief<\/em>\u00a0(city archive) of Amsterdam, where the opening of the <em>Museumnacht\u00a0<\/em>was held this year.\u00a0(Image by Jan de Boer at Flickr.com under license CC BY ND 2.0)<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Een uitverkochte nacht<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Museumnacht Amsterdam 2016 Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Oh49kt5QV2M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A night with many impressive performances, access to over 50 museums, spread throughout the entire city of Amsterdam. That&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/museumnacht.amsterdam\/\"><em>Museumnacht <\/em><\/a>(museum night). And for only 20 euros, you could be part of it. So unsurprisingly, the annual event was again fully sold out. It drew\u00a032,000 people last Saturday, 80% of whom are young, between 18-35 years old. Bigger than ever, the already seventeenth edition of the night was held at 57 locations all over Amsterdam, even in the outskirts of the city. What was there to see?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kom naar de opening van de Museumnacht Amsterdam 2016!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XSJ2mH2T9LE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The night was opened at 6 pm in the\u00a0<em>Stadsarchief\u00a0<\/em>(city archive)\u00a0of Amsterdam with a cool concert given by label Top Notch and Noah&#8217;s Ark. Until 2 am, there were all kinds of things to do. From <em>dansoptredens\u00a0<\/em>(dance performances),\u00a0<em>wetenschap\u00a0<\/em>(science) or\u00a0<em>duurzaam eten\u00a0<\/em>(sustainable food) to\u00a0<em>documentaires\u00a0<\/em>(documentaries), workshops or\u00a0<em>moderne kunst\u00a0<\/em>(modern art). With more than 400 events, the night was packed! For a full list of the range of activities, <a href=\"http:\/\/museumnacht.amsterdam\/programma\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The ticket also\u00a0gave a discount for <em>openbaar vervoer\u00a0<\/em>(public transportation) and many nightclubs, so you could see as much as you wanted\u00a0<em>and\u00a0<\/em>celebrate further even after the\u00a0<em>museumnacht\u00a0<\/em>closed.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Meer jongeren in musea<\/em><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_4696\" style=\"width: 807px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/7ecEh9\" aria-label=\"4087530056 5eb1c486e3 B 1024x683\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4696\" class=\" wp-image-4696\"  alt=\"Image by Franklin Heijnen at Flickr.com under license CC BY SA 2.0\" width=\"797\" height=\"531\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/11\/4087530056_5eb1c486e3_b-1024x683.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/11\/4087530056_5eb1c486e3_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/11\/4087530056_5eb1c486e3_b-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/11\/4087530056_5eb1c486e3_b-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 797px) 100vw, 797px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by Franklin Heijnen at Flickr.com under license CC BY SA 2.0<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">So that is all nice and good, but what&#8217;s the point of this\u00a0<em>museumnacht<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As Roel van den Sigtenhorst, project manager of N8,\u00a0explains: &#8220;<em>De museumnacht is een eerste introductie in de musea en dat helpt voor jongeren als ze al een keer binnen in het museum zijn geweest.<\/em><em> En dat is de eerste stap. Dan wordt de drempel, merken wij, veel minder hoog om nog een keer te gaan<\/em>.&#8221; (The Museum Night is a first introduction to museums and it helps youth if they have already been inside a museum. And that is the first step. We notice that the threshold to go again is then much lower.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">So the whole night aims at drawing more people to go to museums and introducing them to expositions and art by packaging it all in an eventful and exciting night.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Met een app door de nacht<\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The\u00a0<em>Museumnacht\u00a0<\/em>was accompanied by the\u00a0<em>Museumnacht app<\/em>. In the app, the\u00a0<em>bezoekers\u00a0<\/em>(visitors) could see which places were\u00a0<em>het drukst\u00a0<\/em>(the busiest), so they could go to a location where they wouldn&#8217;t have to wait too long. Furthermore, the app provides you with an additional ticket to visit one of the museums again until December 31, 2016. That gives young people the opportunity to\u00a0<em>really\u00a0<\/em>visit again without being shooed by costs of a ticket. Nice!<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Jongerenclubs van musea<\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">More and more museums have\u00a0<em>jongerenclubs\u00a0<\/em>(youth clubs) that bring in new ideas for\u00a0<em>vernieuwing\u00a0<\/em>(innovation). One such museum is the <em>Scheepvaartmuseum\u00a0<\/em>(maritime museum).\u00a0This is also a way that museums try to attract more young\u00a0<em>bezoekers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Ook in andere steden<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>Museumnachten\u00a0<\/em>are also organized in other cities, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/museumnacht010.nl\/\">Rotterdam<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumnachtdenhaag.nl\/6-9\/home\/\">Den Haag<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/museumnachtleiden.nl\/en\">Leiden<\/a>. Also many Belgian cities, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/museumnightfever.be\/?lang=nl\">Brussels<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumnacht.be\/\">Antwerp<\/a>, organize a\u00a0<em>Museumnacht<\/em>. These take place on many different dates throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Would you like to visit a\u00a0<em>Museumnacht<\/em>? For the one in Amsterdam, the target audience is the local youth that does not go to museums often, which is why international payment options are disabled. So the only way to get into the\u00a0<em>Museumnacht\u00a0<\/em>is to go to Amsterdam first, and then get the ticket! You can of course also try other cities that organize their\u00a0<em>Museumnacht\u00a0<\/em>on a different date.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Is there a similar event in or around your city? Does it have a certain goal as well? Is the youth more\/less interested in museums in your country? Let me know in the comments below!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/11\/4087530056_5eb1c486e3_b-350x233.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/11\/4087530056_5eb1c486e3_b-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/11\/4087530056_5eb1c486e3_b-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/11\/4087530056_5eb1c486e3_b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>If you wander through a museum, you will agree with me: there are not that many young people most of the time. It is the same in the Netherlands, where museums try hard to get young people interested to go to museums &#8211; and they come up with some interesting initiatives. 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