Thursday, November 7, 2024

10:00 - 10:30

Sala Sinopoli

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Janneke Martens, Eefje van der Weijden, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Since the reopening of the Rijksmuseum in 2013 and after the COVID pandemic, visitor numbers at the Rijksmuseumhave increased greatly. In 2023 we reached the number of 2.7 million visitors. At the same time, our storage rooms are fullwith objects that are seldom face to face with these visitors. How to combine all this to make the collection more visiblearound the country? The answer to this is firstly to be found in a generous loan policy and consequently in cooperationwith other institutions, we believe. It is important that registrars not only represent their own museums, but also seekconnections with colleagues from other institutions to make art accessible together. Not by imposing limits and restrictions,but by exploring the possibilities in collaboration. In the last five years, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam organized two major touring exhibition projects within theNetherlands. Eefje van der Weijden (registrar of outgoing loans) coordinated the project ‘The four elements, treasuresfrom the Rijks’: a series of four complete exhibitions that toured to as many as six different regional city museums.Janneke Martens (registrar of outgoing loans) arranged a tour of a single object: the newly acquired painting TheVaandeldrager by Rembrandt. Eefje and Janneke would like to tell how they tackled organizing this, what challenges theycame across, what they learned from these projects and most of all how they learned from colleagues (and vice versa)from museums - often with limited staff.

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