Beckmans students create digital guides to the Jewish Museum

Beckmans digital communication, Swedish, visual communication

For the second year in a row, Beckmans is collaborating with the Jewish Museum. Through smartphone-adapted, digital guides, students in Visual Communication provide further immersion to the Jewish story in Sweden.

"Smartphones' possibilities for interaction, deepening, and visualizations create additional layers and entrances to objects, history and stories at the Jewish Museum," he said. It is very pleasing that for the second year our students have been entrusted to contribute with more perspectives based on the rich material in the museum's collections," says Peter Ström, senior lecturer at the Visual Communication programme at Beckmans and responsible for the course.

Points of View - seven digital guides

By exploring different digital technologies, students have created seven guides; For example, the set table tells about the Jewish holidays through objects in the museum, while the Sound museum allows the visitor to explore the music genre klezmer, both by listening to it and by trying to compose their own klezmer melody. Back in Stock is instead a virtual store of lost garments that complement the museum's collection of hangers from Jewish clothing stores and where you as a visitor can try garments yourself using AR technology. Other guides highlight Jewish artistry, hidden stories about Jewish women in Sweden and the hitherto unwarwarmed story of photographer Anna Riwkin-Brick.

Experience the guides at the museum!

The seven guides are best experienced on site in the museum where you can read, listen to, experience and interact with them directly via your smartphone. They are available from 28 October to 28 November.

Welcome!

Participating students and their guides

  • Sara Bris & Joel Eriksson: Squares and stripes forever, about Peter Freudenthal's artistry
  • Jonna Lindberg & Eric Rösmark: Hidden Stories — Portraits of Jewish Women in Sweden
  • Annabella Gustafsson & Sara Solén: Photographer Anna Riwkin-Brick: A prologue to a previously unwarred story.
  • Maja Schein: The table set, about the Jewish holidays
  • Alexander Peri & Clementine Berglund: LOST and FOUND, about stolen historical artworks created by Jewish artists
  • Leonard Ekenberg & Selvi Albayrak: The Sound Museum,an audiovisual guide based on the music genre klezmer.
  • Hedvig Moberg, Linnéa Jakobsson, Alva Nylander: Back in Stock,a virtual store of lost garments. 

About the Jewish Museum 

The Jewish Museum in Stockholm has existed since 1987 but in 2019 moved its operations to Sweden's oldest preserved synagogue on Själagårdsgatan 19 in the Old Town. The basic exhibition Jews & Sweden weaves together the history of Jews in Sweden, which holds many experiences of finding their place in a new country, with the Jewish world of thought and the practice of Judaism. Artistic design has an obvious place in the museum's idea, as a reminder of the link between then and now. In 2020, the museum was nominated for the prestigious museum of the year award by Sweden's museums and the Swedish ICOM (International Council of Museums).

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