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Take a look at Sydhavnen
The Museum of Copenhagen has recruited eight young employees to document the district of Sydhavn
Sydhavnen is a district that is at once both overlooked and surrounded by prejudice. Therefore the Museum of Copenhagen has recruited eight young people who live in Sydhavnen to document and disseminate the district’s nuances. By hiring employees from the newly built Sluseholmen, local year round allotment associations and non-profit housing, the museum hopes to collect very different stories about being young in a district most Copenhageners just drive through.
Training in reporting and collection
Up to June 2012, our new colleagues will, in collaboration with the artist Laura Winge, learn photographic reporting, editing and dissemination. At the same time our new colleagues will be introduced to collection related museum work, since their assignment consists of contributing to the museum’s contemporary collection with local and personal stories, that only they have access to.
The Sydhavn employees regularly upload their photographs to the museum’s digital image platform the WALL, and the process can be followed on the museum’s website and on facebook. In June the museum will celebrate the project with an exhibition of their photos on the WALL.
The Sydhavn employees regularly upload their photographs to the museum’s digital image platform the WALL, and the process can be followed on the museum’s website and on facebook. In June the museum will celebrate the project with an exhibition of their photos on the WALL.
Cultural heritage should be for everyone
The Museum of Copenhagen has the ambition to make cultural heritage work available and relevant for all of the city’s residents. It is therefore a key issue for the museum to involve local residents that vary in background from the museum’s other employees and traditional users, in the collection and description of the metropolis’ contemporary culture. In 2008-2010 the museum employed youngsters from the district of Nørrebro to record and disseminate their districts history, and Copenhageners as well as visitors can contribute to the museum’s collection with their own personal Copenhagen story by uploading their photos on the WALL.
History and stories change according to who sees it here and now, and by focusing on a district such as Sydhavnen in a diversified contemporary perspective, the Museum of Copenhagen also gains the opportunity to view its own historical Sydhavn material in a new context.
Read more about the Nørrebro outreach-project
Read more about the Museum of Copenhagen’s mission and vision