The Complex Interplay of Experiences During a Museum Visit (in Corona Times)

On 1 June 2020 at 12.00hrs, Dutch museums will reopen their doors now that the government is easing on the regulations. But why visit a museum in the first place? Nynke Feenstra explains how a museum visit is part of a complex interplay of experiences that transcend the time and place of your visit.

Nynke Feenstra • May 28, 2020

LUCAS Explains #3: Why does apple pie with whipped cream affect your museum experience?

What makes art taste good? By serving cake, museums might help you along. Why does apple pie with whipped cream affect your museum experience? Nynke Feenstra explains how a museum visit is part of a complex interplay of experiences that transcend the time and place of your visit.

Nynke Feenstra • March 10, 2020

Why You Should Start a Research Vlog: LUCAS Explains

21 June 2019, Bessensap, NWO’s yearly conference on science communication will take place. Next to blogs, we increasingly see videos entering the science communications stage. But what is the added value of video for the public? And for the researcher?

Nynke Feenstra • June 13, 2019

Napoleon’s stolen sea monster: repatriating cultural objects

When it comes to repatriating cultural objects, even an ancient sea monster has trouble swimming upstream

Nynke Feenstra and Renske Janssen • February 08, 2018

A wall poem: the deaf way

October 14, the world’s first sign language wall poem was revealed in Leiden. This blog started from things I learned that day about the powerful messages communicated through SL poetry and the demand for recognition that you can ‘see’ between the lines.

Nynke Feenstra • November 02, 2017

Happy Birthday Blog

To celebrate the blog's first birthday, this post looks back on some of the highlights so far.

Sophia Hendrikx, Lieke Smits, Nynke Feenstra, Tessa de Zeeuw, Robbert Striekwold and Céline Zaepffel • April 06, 2017

Series Final: The Intersection of Multiple Minoritizing Identifications

Looi van Kessel and Nynke Feenstra collaborate in a blog series on the intersection of different minoritizing identifications. In this series final, they reflect on the main insights they have acquired while writing this series.

Looi van Kessel and Nynke Feenstra • March 31, 2017

Unwritten/Unacknowledged

After having talked about the intersection of LGBT and Deaf identifications, it is time to survey how organizations work to overcome problems that people with disabilities encounter on the gay dating scene.

Looi van Kessel and Nynke Feenstra • December 01, 2016

Deaf CommuniGAYtion

Following our previous blogpost on Deafies in Drag, this time we explore the ways in which sign language and its education interact with perspectives on LGBT within the Deaf community.

Looi van Kessel and Nynke Feenstra • October 06, 2016

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