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• increase representation of common shoes
• distribute information about shoes
• inform visitors of shoes of other visitors
• building the national digital shoe collection
• search engines; age, kind of shoe, male/female, color, etc
General public
Netherlands
• Low technology investment and material costs
• User friendly
• Accessible: both standing and wheelchair visitors can enjoy the exhibit on site by being able to sit or stand for the photo making
• The first digital shoe collection of The Netherlands is being created by the visitors themselves
• Requires some level of digital experiences
• Visitors have to take some time during their visit
Exhibit, with an e-mail request at the end to upload your email address.
• Increased visibility: The exhibit shows a digital shoe collection
• Increased visitor numbers: by collection e-mail addresses and sending newsletters
• Community Engagement: we have the only digital database of shoes in The Netherlands where we can search on age, etc.
• Knowledge of making a good exhibit, working together with a designer
• Processing the email address to the mail system
• Promoting exhibit during the visit and on social media, news media
• Stable wifi connection inside museum
• Good research skills to discover ´hidden´ stories and connections in the collection
• An exhibit in the permanent exhibition what visitors by entering the museum seduces to participated in making a photo of their shoes.
• Every visitor is encouraged to do the exhibit.
The Digital national Shoe collection is a self-guided exhibit that collects the shoes of our visitors in the museum’s permanent exhibition. The methodology emphasizes:
• Digital collecting of shoes people wear today of by making a photo of the shoe and asking a few questions and collect the data into a database.
• Engagement with heritage – by asking questions at the database; how many women of 50 are wearing blue boots? (an example)
• Accessibility for almost everyone
• Online availability of your shoe results by e-mail
• Community co-creation: the content is developed in collaboration with the visitors.
This approach merges interaction, building a digital contemporary collection of shoes of the visitors and inclusive storytelling, comparing, asking questions about your shoes and others, low-tech model for reinterpreting collecting.
Core Resources:
• Designer
• Exhibit builder
• ICT knowledge and hosting the database
• Online hosting platform
Estimated Start-up Cost:
• €10.000 for initial research, designer, building, ICT network—assuming staff does most of the work in-house.
• Ongoing costs are minimal and limited to content updates and optional reprints.
This initiative can be replicated by small museums with very limited budgets:
• By skipping the exhibit and just make photo’s of the shoes of the visitors
Estimated Low-Cost Implementation:
• €0–€200, without the labour
This model allows contemporary collecting, but know interaction with the collection.
