Interview with Annie Fletcher, then curator of the Van Abbemuseum, about Jan Dibbets’ work The Shortest Day at the Van Abbemuseum (1970), possible ways of installing the work to explore its significance in various forms in relation to the idea of the collection, the museum and archive, ideas that also form the basis of the exhibition 'For Eindhoven'- The City as Muse as part of the exhibition series VANUIT HIER - OUT OF HERE.

Files not yet migrated to Data Station. Files for this dataset can be found at https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:160440.

Interviews in Conservation Research is a growing collection of oral history records that can inform the preservation, conservation and presentation of works of art and cultural heritage in the Netherlands. Many professionals in museums and heritage institutions conduct interviews with artists, artist assistants and conservators, as well as with other stakeholders, such as curators, directors and collectors to learn more about the works they have in their collections. These interviews are rarely sustainably archived nor easily accessible for other researchers, as their existence as primary sources is relatively unknown. This thematic collection helps to overcome these problems and is one of the main results of the NWO funded KIEM project Interviews in Conservation Research, a partner project of the Netherlands Institute for Conservation+Art+Science (NICAS) as part of the Conservation Oral History Initiative. This is an ongoing initiative and additions to the thematic collection Interviews in Conservation Research are welcome to build a rich collection of unique source material that allows for cross-referencing and provides a unique view on the behind the scenes of the lives of works of art and cultural heritage in the Netherlands.