Project Manager
Hampf, JanProject manager
Särö Cultural HeritageAmount granted
300 000 SEKYear
2011
The purpose of the project is to develop the Särö Cultural Heritage database so that it meets high demands from the public and researchers regarding quality and accessibility. The database will contribute to creating a basis for understanding events and contexts from a dynamic period of Sweden's economic and social development, the years 1850-1950. Our ambition is to offer a high quality virtual museum. Särö is located in northern Halland, two miles south of Gothenburg. During the period 1850-1950, it was a well-known seaside resort environment that became a meeting place for leading Swedish entrepreneurs, politicians and artists as well as the royal family. The cultural heritage from this period is documented in an extensive but scattered collection of pictures, writings and paintings. In recent years, Särö has been highlighted in a couple of research reports. The issue of digitizing our cultural heritage is receiving increasing interest at both national and international level. Behind the project is the Särö Cultural Heritage Foundation, whose task is to make Särö's cultural heritage accessible to the public and researchers by tracing, documenting and making this material visible through a digital museum. In an active outreach manner and through an extensive network, material is borrowed by the Foundation for digitization, a material that to a large extent would not naturally find its way to the established institutions. Since its launch in 2009, more than 3 000 images and documents have been digitized and made available.