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Title:: New perspectives on past exhibitions: The history of Kutter's exhibitions through a digital lens

15 N°II 2024 MuseoMag DIGITAL DATA can help us answer questions such as how has the Kutter collection grown over time? What percentage are paintings and what percentage are drawings? Which works were exhibited in what exhibition? Which works were exhibited often, which have not been exhibited at all? How many of the works on show were part of the museum’s collection at the time, and how many works on show in each exhibi- tion are part of the museum’s collection today? The answers to these questions can be analysed and in- terpreted, telling us more about both Kutter’s and the Nationalmusée’s history. THE MAGIC OF METADATA The data on Kutter that we need to answer these and many other questions has been gathered and enco- ded as part of our ongoing effort to publish our col- lections online on MNAHA Collections. You can find our entire Kutter collection on there and each work is described by selected metadata, i.e., the type of work, dimensions and medium, but also the date and method of acquisition. Since Kutter’s works are in the public domain you can download high-resolution images of his works, zoom in closely and analyse his technique or even print them out and hang them on your walls. Because objects are much more telling when they are put into context, we didn’t just encode data about individual works, but we linked them to the ex- hibitions they were a part of. As a part of our efforts to both better understand our collection and our ins- titutional history, we have started to publish our past exhibitions on MNAHA Collections. For each exhibi- tion we try to reconstruct the physical exhibition as far as we can by assembling the works from our col- lection that were exhibited, the exhibition catalogue, scans of installation views – if they exist – and a re- ference to our archive, where more, not yet digitised documents can be found and requested. As such, the digital platform doesn’t question the importance of archival research, but rather offers an accessible tool that facilitates substantive preliminary research. MNAHA Collections is designed to display the works, their data and context in a way that is intuitive and easy to read. However, the data is not necessarily presented in a form that someone who doesn’t have the necessary technical skills can easily make use of. To make it more accessible, we have decided to publish thematic datasets on the data sharing plat- form of the Luxembourg state – data.public.lu. The first dataset is on the works of Joseph Kutter in our collection and their exhibition history. It is the same one I will be using to prepare the talk Lis Hausemer and I will give on Kutter’s reception at the National- musée in July. We will use both methods described above to look at how the museum both canonised Kutter and used him as a symbol of national identity. Edurne Kugeler Be sure to sign up for the talk De Joseph Kutter an der Geschicht vum Nationalmusée with Edurne Kugeler and Lis Hausemer on 4 July at 6 pm, organised as part of our exhibition Dem Kutter seng Gesiichter. Nei Facettë vun eiser Sammlung.

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