 New
broadcasting museum opens in Hilversum
On Friday evening, Queen Beatrix opened the new Netherlands
Institute for Sound and Vision building in Hilversum, which houses
the television and radio archives of Dutch national broadcasting. There
are also some pages
in English.
Rotterdam architects Neutelings Riedijk have designed what looks basically
like a cube but is enveloped in a spectacular glass façade of multi-coloured
computer-controlled images. And that is just a foretaste of what awaits
the visitor inside. A large central court extends up the full height of
the building.
Aside from office and the archive, the building also houses a broadcasting
museum, which is a sort of time travel experience where people can access
a selection from 80 years and 700,000 hours of audiovisual material.
RNW has contributed to several of the exhibits, including the first exhibit
“A Global Village” that you can see in the Media Experience.
This is entitled “Worldkids” and includes many interviews
that have been made with kids in RNW target areas on how they see the
future of both new and traditional media.
Hear more about this by listening online via these audio
links.
Source: Media Network
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