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F.A.Q.

What is the target audience of this documentary? The ‘Making Sense’ documentary is aimed at everybody within the museums community. But it’s also targeted at people interested in learning about museums, the position of museum's in society and the future of the ever changing industry.

What is the purpose of the documentary? We summarised the purpose of the documentary in this ‘Making Sense' pdf document.

How and when will it be published? Pre-production just finished so we are currently in production. This mean we started filming the interviews with most of the people involved. So far we don’t have a publishing deadline set yet but we expect to publish a release date soon. The documentary will be published online. However we are also currently negotiation about syndication with several streaming services and television networks.

How is the documentary produced and funded? The documentary is produced by REDRUM. Also the main investor and sponsor of this project. REDRUM is a film- and animation studio in the Netherlands. They have produced large national and international video production for many museums in the past. That’s why REDRUM decided to takes this on as one of the two non-profit video project they produce yearly. For more information about REDRUM's position in the museum industry you can also read: Redrum & Museums



Production & Participants

The Making Sense documentary contains a long list of participants. Many has been influential or an inspiration to the museum industry at large. Below you fill find some of the participants in this documentary. We are currently in the process of updating this list. We started adding people that are currently being interviewed. We will soon also add a complete overview of our financial and media partnes. The documentary is produced by Radrum. A video and animatin studio that happens to have much experience in producing for museums as you can see here.

Herman Kossmann
Director
at Kossmann.dejong exhibition

Barbera Hinterleitner
Content Management & Communication
at Ars Electronica Solutions

Pieter van der Heijden
Director at XPEX Experience Experts

Christiaan Kuipers
Creative director
REDRUM film- and animation studio

Julia Pagel
Secretary General
NEMO – The Network of European Museum Organisations

Rebecca Stokes
Director, Marketing Campaigns and Audience Engagement at MOMA

Rik Herder
Exhibition creator at Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen


Bibliography

A lot of interresting research was done during the production of this documentary. Besides countless hours consuming youtube video's, talking to many experts and specialists, we also took the time to consume many books and reports regarding our topics of choise. Here is a complete overview of the publications consumed or used as inspiration during production.

Publication Author(s) Details
0 The NEMO reading corner Several - NEMO (ne-mo.org)
1 The Future of Museums Bast, Gerald, Carayannis, Elias G., Campbell, David F. J. (Eds.)
2 Using Museums as an Educational Resource: An Introductory Handbook for Students and Teachers Graeme K. Talboys
3 Museum, Media, Message (Museum Meanings) Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
4 Museum Communication and Social Media: The Connected Museum (Routledge Research in Museum Studies) Kirsten Drotner, Kim Christian Schrøder
5 Towards the Museum of the Future: New European Perspectives (Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management) Roger Miles, Lauro Zavala
6 The Witness as Object: Video Testimony in Memorial Museums (Museums and Collections) Steffi de Jong
7 Forward Planning: A Handbook of Business, Corporate and Development Planning for Museums and Galleries Timothy Ambrose, Sue Runyard
8 Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema Haidee Wasson
9 Museums, Media And Cultural Theory (Issues in Cultural & Media Studies) Michelle Henning
10 Scientific Knowledge Communication in Museums (Research for Development) Alberto Rovetta, Edoardo Rovida
11 Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art Bruce Altshuler
12 The Museum Is Open (Contact Zones) Andrea Meyer (Author), Benedicte Savoy
13 Re-Imagining the Museum: Beyond the Mausoleum (Museum Meanings) Andrea Witcomb
14 Post Critical Museology Andrew Dewdney
15 Art and Its Publics: Museum Studies at the Millennium Andrew McClellan
16 Museums and Higher Education Working Together: Challenges and Opportunities Jos Boys, Anne Boddington
17 Museum Experience Design: Crowds, Ecosystems and Novel Technologies Arnold Vermeeren, Licia Calvi, Amalia Sabiescu
18 The Art of Museum Exhibitions: How Story and Imagination Create Aesthetic Experiences Leslie Bedford
19 Museums, Power, Knowledge: Selected Essays Tony Bennett
20 Museums and Design Education: Looking to Learn, Learning to See Rebecca Reynolds, Beth, Ms Cook, Catherine, Ms Speight, Rebecca, Ms Reynolds
21 Interpreting Art in Museums and Galleries Christopher Whitehead
22 Museum and Archive on the Move Oliver Grau
23 Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles (Media and Society) Daniel Sherman, Irit Rogoff
24 Adult Education, Museums and Art Galleries: Animating Social, Cultural and Institutional Change Darlene E. Clover, Kathy Sanford, Lorraine Bell
25 Open Conversations: Public Learning in Libraries and Museums by David Carr David Carr
26 Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries David Carrier
27 Museum Exhibition: Theory and Practice David Dean
28 Museum Memories: History, Technology, Art (Cultural Memory in the Present) Didier Maleuvre
29 Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums Edward P. Alexander, Mary Alexander
30 Museums and Education: Purpose, Pedagogy, Performance (Museum Meanings) Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
31 The Manual of Museum Management Gail Dexter Lord, Barry Lord
32 Learning in the Museum (Museum Meanings) George E. Hein
33 Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture George W. Stocking Jr.
34 The User Perspective on Twenty-First-Century Art Museums Georgia Lindsay
35 Heritage, Museums and Galleries Gerard Corsane
36 Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials Dr. Greg Dickinson, Carole Blair, Brian L. Ott
37 Redisplaying Museum Collections: Contemporary Display and Interpretation in British Museums Hannah Paddon
38 Museums, Ethics and Cultural Heritage ICOM
39 Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage James Cuno
40 New Museum Theory and Practice: An Introduction Janet Marstine
41 Museums and the Public Sphere Jennifer Barrett
42 Challenging History in the Museum: International Perspectives Jenny Kidd, Sam Cairns, Alex Drago, Amy Ryall
43 Museums in the New Mediascape: Transmedia, Participation, Ethics New edition Jenny Kidd
44 The Museums of Contemporary Art: Notion and Development J. Pedro Lorente
45 Museum Learning Jill Hohenstein
46 Learning from Museums John H. Falk
47 Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience John H. Falk
48 Museum Management (Leicester Readers in Museum Studies) Kevin Moore
49 The Representation of the Past: Museums and Heritage in the Post-Modern World Kevin Walsh
50 Museums and Source Communities Alison K. Brown
51 Learning on Display: Student-created Museums That Build Understanding Linda D'acquisto
52 50 Museums to Blow Your Mind Ben Handicott, Kalya Ryan
53 Museum Texts: Comunication Frameworks (Museum Meanings) Louise Ravelli
54 Consumer Research for Museum Marketers: Audience Insights Money Can't Buy Margot A. Wallace
55 Researching Visual Arts Education in Museums and Galleries: An International Reader M. Xanthoudaki, L. Tickle, V. Sekules
56 Creating a Winning Online Exhibition: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums Martin R. Kalfatovic
57 Museums: A Visual Anthropology (Key Texts in the Anthropology of Visual and Material Culture) Mary Bouquet
58 Museum Marketing and Strategy: Designing Missions, Building Audiences, Generating Revenue and Resources Neil G. Kotler, Philip Kotler, Wendy I. Kotler
59 The Return of Curiosity: What Museums are Good For in the 21st Century Nicholas Thomas
60 The Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America's Greatest Museum Nina Burleigh
61 The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space Nina Levent, Alvaro Pascual-Leone
62 Museums 2000: Politics, People, Professionals and Profit Patrick Boylan
63 Museum as Process: Translating Local and Global Knowledges (Museum Meanings) Raymond Silverman
64 Palace of Culture: Andrew Carnegie’s Museums and Library in Pittsburgh Robert J. Gangewere
65 Museum Management and Marketing (Leicester Readers in Museum Studies) Richard Sandell, Robert R. Janes
66 Looking Reality in the Eye: Museums and Social Responsibility Robert R. Janes
67 Museum Thresholds: The Design and Media of Arrival (Routledge Research in Museum Studies) Ross Parry, Ruth Page, Alex Moseley
68 Museums, prejudice and the reframing of difference Richard Sandell
69 Museum Objects: Experiencing the Properties of Things (Leicester Readers in Museum Studies) Sandra H. Dudley
70 Museum Materialities Sandra Dudley
71 Perspectives on Object-Centered Learning in Museums Scott G. Paris
72 A Companion to Museum Studies Sharon Macdonald
73 Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum (Materializing Culture) Sharon Macdonald
74 The Politics of Display: Museums, Science, Culture (Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management) Sharon Macdonald
75 Attention and Value: Keys to Understanding Museum Visitors Stephen Bitgood
76 Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums Stephen T. Asma
76 The Anatomy of a Museum: An Insider's Text Steven Miller
77 Museum Economics and the Community (New Research in Museum Studies) Susan Pearce
78 Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives Susan Sleeper-Smith
79 Museums in the Digital Age: Changing Meanings of Place, Community, and Culture Susana Smith Bautista
80 Fragments of the World: Uses of Museum Collections Suzanne Keene
81 Managing Conservation in Museums Suzanne Keene
82 Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions (Museum Meanings) Suzanne Macleod, Laura Hourston Hanks, Jonathan Hale
83 Reshaping Museum Space (Museum Meanings) Suzanne Macleod
84 Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art (The MIT Press) Sybil Kantor
85 Designing for the Museum Visitor Experience (Routledge Research in Museum Studies) Tiina Roppola
86 Museum Basics: The International Handbook Timothy Ambrose, Crispin Paine
87 The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (Culture: Policy and Politics) Tony Bennett
88 How to Build a Museum: Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture Tonya Bolden
89 Museums and Digital Culture: New Perspectives and Research Tula Giannini, Jonathan P. Bowen
90 Planning Successful Museum Building Projects Walter L. Crimm, Martha Morris, Carole L. Wharton