In the Netherlands film and video has only recently been recognized as cultural heritage. A couple of years ago Beeld en Geluid, Image and Sound, a foundation that preserves the Dutch media, built an enormous palace. All Dutch TV and radio of the past 100 years is shown here in what is called an experience. Although aimed at a broad targetgroup, I like it, also because they show a lot of old hardware. Me and my colleague bart were invited for a tour with lectures on preserving and tagging media.
Parallel to that they started together with the Amsterdam Filmmuseum and other partners a project to preserve and disseminate a large quantity of films and other media called 'beelden voor de toekomst', images for the future (and you are right: the Dutch are very straighforward in choosing names). This is really amazing also because of its incredible budget: 180000000 euros. Where do the Dutch get all this money? Gas, that we borrow from mother earth (that's what we tell her..), we sell for hard currency.
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