Exactly two years ago Museum De Voorde in Zoetermeer closed the doors. The exhibition space was full of typical Zoetermeer objects: from pearls to junk. The space had to be empty and the things threatened to move to museums outside our city. The Zoetermeerders ensured that they were largely in their own city, you can see this week in TV program The hour of the wolf.
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In The hour of the wolf See you documentaries in which attention is paid to various art forms. In the broadcast of Tuesday, April 22, listen and look at special Zoetermeer stories behind the things in the museum collection. For one it may seem like a mess, for the other it has a deep meaning.
Plan from Hans
De Voorde was our urban museum with a regional -historical collection of Zoetermeerders for four years. The museum had a hard time after, among other things, the Coronaper period, and the municipality decided not to put any money into it. Closure was the result. The plan was to divide the historical collection between other museums in the Netherlands. But interim director Hans van de Bunte came up with something else.
Where do you leave it?
He asked residents of Zoetermeer to think about what to do with the Dutch heritage. In a temporary space on Stadhuisplein they were allowed to share their opinion and think along about a good solution. Do people get their handed in the stuff back, or do they better come into their own in another museum? What stories are there behind the objects, and what is the emotional value. In the end, together they appointed 1700 objects as indispensable heritage. Would it be the historic dog cart, or a comic book about Suske and Wiske in Zoetermeer?
Go look
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In the documentary This belongs to us You see how fellow citizens are involved in the process of descending. A unique story about our city, so go and see! Tuesday, April 22, the documentary can be seen in the NTR program The hour of the wolfat 10.40 pm on NPO 2. Or watch the broadcast afterwards via NPO Start.