Jaap Bakema Study Centre
Museology
The combination of archival research and public presentation naturally leads to explorations of, and reflections on, questions of museology. Public presentation can assume all kind of formats, but within museological practice the exhibition counts as the most important vehicle for exhibiting historical material to a wide audience.
Exhibitions have the power to frame the architectural discourse by exploring the larger cultural conditions that shape the discipline. In the same way as a world fair communicates a global condition, an exhibition of architectural drawings communicates the existence of archives and their institutional memory. International biennales often propose yet another kind of format: the exhibition as a platform for research. Archive, research, exhibition and the audience are interconnected in the production of new knowledge and values.
From the analysis of historical materials to speculations about the future, what sort of knowledge production is constituted by architectural exhibitions? Where – and who – is the audience? And what does turning an exhibition into a platform for research tell us about the state of the discipline and where it is headed? The Jaap Bakema Study Centre probes these questions in various settings, often in collaboration with international partners.
Past events
9 November 2019
Making the Exhibition
Two conversations on addressing strategies for reconstructing exhibitions and historic ways of looking at art, plus the ...
➝ Read more1 December 2015
Maarten Gielen / Conference Research on Display
Maarten Gielens' lecture was the closing event of the two-day conference 'Research on Display. The Architecture Exhibiti...
➝ Read more30 November 2015 - 1 December 2015
Research On Display
For its second annual conference The Jaap Bakema Study Centre wanted to take a closer look at the relationship between r...
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5 September 2023
Alison’s Room XR installation on display at the Netherlands Film Festival
Alison’s Room: An Extended Reality Archive, an XR installation by Paula Strunden, can be seen at various locations in th...
➝ Read more27 October 2022
Virtual CIAM Museum
What would a museum without walls look like? Three prototypes, developed for a new virtual museum, explore the possibili...
➝ Read more2 October 2020
Art on Display 1949-69
Catalogue accompanying the eponymous exhibition Art on Display 1949-69, a collaboration between the Gulbenkian Museum in...
➝ Read more18 May 2020
Architectures on Display by Barry Bergdoll
From 4 to 15 May 2020, renowned architectural historian Barry Bergdoll led the theory master class of The Berlage, entit...
➝ Read more5 December 2018
Encounters in the Museum
In the first semester of the 2018-2019 academic year, Dirk van den Heuvel is tutoring the seminar series _Encounters in ...
➝ Read more30 June 2015
1:1
This publication presents documentation compiled by the Jaap Bakema Study Centre as a reflection upon the installations ...
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