Museum projects focusing on the home, historical soundscapes and the black transition

VELUX FONDEN is awarding a total of DKK 14.3 million to three museum projects that rethink research and dissemination at the Danish museums.

What did the transition to fossil energy mean for life in 19th-century cities and what light can it shed on our modern life, consumption and the green transition? How do nomads around the world create a ‘home’ and how do we experience ‘a sense of belonging’? What soundscapes did our people of the past listen to and how can these soundscapes be recreated in museums’ historical buildings to support an authentic museum experience?

These are the main questions in the three projects that the board of VELUX FONDEN has chosen to award grants to under the foundation’s museum programme which supports cooperation between museums and universities.

Nine museums are involved in the projects

The projects involve nine diverse museums:

  • Moesgaard Museum
  • Museum Sønderjylland
  • Odense City Museums
  • Den Gamle By
  • The Danish Railway Museum
  • The Danish Museum of Energy
  • Struer Museum
  • Skanderborg Museum
  • Museum Midtjylland
     

Aarhus University, Aalborg University, DTU (Technical University of Denmark) and the University of Southern Denmark are also involved in the projects.

“The Danish museums provide a framework for experiences, enlightenment and reflection. Without research to drive them, museums would be centres of outdated knowledge, resulting in a weakening of the important democratic role they play as institutions of knowledge. Here, cooperation with the universities is a win for both parties, says Henrik Tronier, Head of Programme at VELUX FONDEN. 

The close link between research and dissemination is common to the three museum projects involving nine museums and four universities:

“Through research, the projects create original, new knowledge about past or unfamiliar worlds and ways of life. Through dissemination, these projects bring this new knowledge into dialogue with the present, offering a perspective on our lives and societies. Here, they broadly reach out to the general population and appeal to our senses, insights, experience and enlightenment,” stresses Henrik Tronier. 

This is the sixth time that VELUX FONDEN has allocated funds under the museum programme. Since 2015, more than DKK 100 million in grants have been awarded to a total of 22 different projects across Denmark. 

Behind the three projects
About the application process

The foundation received a total of 30 expressions of interest for the museum programme’s open listing in 2019. Of these, 10 project proposals were invited to prepare and submit a full application. Some DKK 14.3 million has now been allocated to the three selected projects.

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