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 on Sunday’s Dutch Extra on Radio Netherlands, or listen online via these audio links.
