Access to Contemporary Art Conservation is a sub-project within the two-year European project PRACTICs (2009-2011).

It is generally known that the public is interested in stories of the making of art. There are many examples of well-liked movies on ‘the artist at work’. The Inside Installations exhibition in Kröller-Müller Museum in 2006-07 was very successful; in the national press in The Netherlands it was even in the top-five of most appreciated exhibitions of the year. This sub-project will establish a relationship with diverse public target groups in matters of conservation-presentation, guide museum visitors through interesting questions of conservation-presentation and increase public appreciation of contemporary art.

What did the partners in PRACTICs learn from this sub-project?

Click here to see a summary of lessons learned.

The results of Access2CA were:

- seminar in Ljubljana, December 10, 2009

- seminar in Porto, March 10, 2011

- documentary film Installation Art: Who Cares?

- survey of the film Installation Art: Who Cares?

- good practice museum tours

- variety of Access2CA projects:

- online virtual tour of the Museo de Novecento, Milan, Italy

- short film made by the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

- exhibition and film of the Tent Project, Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands

- exhibition Inside Installations at the Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Gent, Belgium

- discussion on Inside Installations exhibition at S.M.A.K.