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The Museum of Liverpool is presenting objects from their local project “The secret life of Smithdown Road” in our virtual gallery. The exhibition shows from each entrepreneur the best selling item, or item which best represents their business.
The Amsterdam Historical Museum is presenting several objects from their “Buurtwinkels” (neighbourhoodshops) project.
The Museum Europäischer Kulturen is presenting [...]

In June 2009, we got together in Barcelona to discuss strategies for collecting the ‘future heritage’ of contemporary entrepreneurial cultures in European cities. The various museums involved are collecting objects and personal histories of new European entrepreneurs. In the exhibition project Supertoko, Imagine IC in Amsterdam, in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam Institute for [...]

On the first project meeting, there were presentations on the theoretical and practical aspects and experiences of outreach work in local projects in Berlin, Liverpool and Amsterdam. One of the important questions was sustainability. The participants made an excursion to Transvaal neighbourhood in Amsterdam, where the AHM is developing contacts and collecting stories for the [...]