GLAM/Newsletter/May 2025/Contents/Switzerland report
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International Museum Day 2025; CoCreation PTT-Archive; Scoring Girls
International Museum Day 2025
It is the first time in the history of Wikimedia that the International Council of Museums ICOM approached us for a cooperation for the International Museum Day. ICOM international is located in Paris and they approached us expressing how thankful they are for the work that has been done in the last years. We explained that we need the poster as an open file on commons. They uploaded their posters to commons in different languages. In order to take the museums work further we expressed that we as wikimedians need free entry to all museums in the world. They have been very open to this and it does make sense to follow it up on all different levels with all the different contacts we have as Wiki movement. This year our projectpage has been done in 9 languages. Our panel was addressing the theme of 2025: The Future of Museums in Rapidly Changing Communities. We had four speakers showing their perspectives. Their inputs will soon be visible on the project page as well. The panel was moderated by Christine Düwel. The speakers were Gabriela Saenger Silva, Rose Musyoki, Stephanie Jünenmann and Ralf Schmitt. We looked at two museums in Brazil, the museum scene in Nairobi and decolonizing projects from BAI with international particiapants. The Museum Paraense Emílio Goeldi was founded by a Swiss naturalist and is now a center for Indigenous culture. Also new videos were produced reflecting the 2025 sustainable deveopment goals that have been selected by ICOM. As communities we are working together and have to strengthen each other in these difficult times. The video by Siggi Weide reflects the future stage museums can provide for communities. Although the International Museum Day has passed it is still possible to contribute and to use the page for showing projects of the year 2025.
CoCreation PTT-Archive
The PTT-Archive in Bern approached us to do a project on contextualisation with artistic methods in order to make the content in the archive available for a wider audience - and, of course, for digitalization purposes. The PTT-Archive is the national archive of Switzerland providing historical documents that reflect the rapidly changing history of telecommunication. The theme suggested by the archive has been telephone books. We were Wikipedians and artists that first got a tour through the history of telephone books. When telecommunication started there were only short numbercodes as only a few people hat a telephone and used it in their surrounding. On one telephone device a whole family or a whole community or working group was addressed. Interesting has been that there was a whole profession called telephoniste or switchboard operator that was done by women in Switzerland and by men in Italy that also falled in love with another. Telepfone books have been used to find people as at earlier times not all people have been registered in the city offices. Looking at the last names it came out that places with lost of restaurants and shops had more often names as Baker than places without food where the last name Hungry was quiet common. The job as telephoniste had similar working rules as working today remotely on ones own device. One should stand up in between, move, have breaks and take care of the own body. The project will continue and results will be published on the projectpage.
Scoring Girls
In Switzerland the preparation for the Women's EURO 2025 has started. The football games will take place in July. As football is a team event forcing collaboration the topic seems central for GLAM community building. The scoring girls is a community growing project addressing pupils in the age from 8 to 18. The edit-a-thon took place at Kasko in Basel and will be continued in July. People interested in participating also remotely can sign in on the project page.
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