UN Live

The Museum for the United Nations — UN Live is a future museum of the United Nations based in Copenhagen.[1][2] It was officially announced on United Nations Day 2016[3] with a mission to "connect people everywhere to the work and values of the United Nations and catalyze global effort towards achieving its goals".[4] it is envisaged to have a "bottom-up and participatory" content strategy[5][6] across three "platforms":[7]

  • UN Live Online
  • UN Live Building, "the main physical presence and face of UN Live", to be in Copenhagen, Denmark, and to planned to open in 2023.[8]
  • UN Live Network, "the global, physical presence of UN Live" in partnership with other UN facilities, museums, educational institutions.
Museum for the United Nations - UN Live
Established2016
LocationCopenhagen, Denmark
CEOMolly Fannon
Websitehttp://museumfortheun.org/

Confirmation of the plan was announced in October 2016, with digital services operating from 2017, before the physical building is constructed, with a five-year budget of €350 million.[9]

Personnel

The museum's executive director is Jan Mattsson, formerly the Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services.[10] The associate director is Michael Edson, formerly the director of web and new media strategy at the Smithsonian Institution.[11][12] Announced in 2019, the CEO is Molly Voss Fannon, formerly director of international relations, also at the Smithsonian Institution.[13]

The organisation also has an eight person advisory council. As of March 2019 this consists of:[14]

  • Ban Ki-moon; Former UN Secretary-General
  • Ahmad Alhendawi; Secretary-General, World Organization of Scout Movement
  • Darren Walker; President, Ford Foundation
  • Ellen Chilemba; Founder, Tiwale
  • Ilwad Elman; Director of Programs & Development, Elman Peace HRC
  • Jesper Nygård; CEO, Realdania
  • Ricardo Piquet; President, Museum of Tomorrow
  • Trisha Shetty; Founder, SheSays

Pre-feasibility report
External video
A global museum built from the bottom up – TEDx presentation by Michael Edson, September 2016
Vil have museum til Danmark – DR1 news broadcast, June 11, 2018. With statements by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Danish Finance Minister Kristian Jensen

Launched in 2015, the pre-feasibility study called for funding over a five-year period of €356 million.[15] The "immediate next steps" of the project were described as: securing a UN General Assembly Resolution supporting the project (drafted by the Danish Permanent Representative to the UN); writing a detailed feasibility study (including exact project costings, plans for an architectural competition and site analysis, and legal due-diligence); and confirming funding commitments from "Danish, Nordic and international foundations".[15]

In 2014 an "Association for a UN Live Museum" was established, registered as a voluntary association (Frivillig forening) based in Copenhagen, to undertake the pre-feasibility phase of the project.[16] It was funded and supported by Bikubenfonden,[17] Rambøll, Realdania, the Nordea Foundation, the Obel Foundation,[18] and Mattsson's own company M-Trust Leadership.[19] The "head of secretariat" for the Association is Henrik Skovby, founder of Dalberg Global Development Advisors, who worked for the United Nations Development Programme when Mattsson was its Assistant Secretary-General[20] and the Chair of the "design and content committee" for the study was artist Olafur Eliasson.[21]

References
  1. "Secretary-General Welcomes Plans to Create New Museum about United Nations in Copenhagen as Instrumental for Supporting Sustainable Development Goals". www.un.org. 2016-10-24. Retrieved 2018-06-16.
  2. "Ban Ki-moon møder mulige donorer i København: Får vi et FN-museum?" [Ban Ki-moon meets potential donors in Copenhagen: Do we get a UN museum?] (in Danish). DR. 2018-06-11. Retrieved 2018-06-16.
  3. "United Nations Day 2016 Announcement of the Creation of the Museum for the United Nations UN Live" (PDF). www.unlivemuseum.org. 2016-10-24. Retrieved 2018-05-16.
  4. "Introduction". www.unlivemuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-06-16.
  5. "Content Strategy (abridged)" (PDF). www.unlivemuseum.org. 2017. Retrieved 2018-06-16.
  6. "Breaking down the walls of the traditional museum". CBC Radio. 2018-05-18. Retrieved 2018-06-16.
  7. "The Three Platforms". unlivemuseum.org. The Association for a UN Live Museum. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  8. Colombo, Maria Elena (2018-11-21). "Come sarà il museo dell'Onu di Copenaghen?". Artribune ( English translation) (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-03-13. External link in |website= (help)
  9. "A UN museum where digital is more than an afterthought". United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe. 2016-10-27. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  10. "Mr Jan Mattsson, former Executive Director". UNOPS. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  11. Edson, Michael (2014-12-18). "Joining the UN Live Museum for Humanity". usingdata.tumblr.com. Archived from the original on 2016-01-27. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  12. Owens, Trevor (2012-08-09). "Digital Strategy Catches up With the Present: An Interview with Smithsonian's Michael Edson | The Signal". blogs.loc.gov. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  13. "Press Release: Announcing Molly Voss Fannon as new CEO" (PDF). unlivemuseum.org. 2019-03-06.
  14. "Global Leadership Council". Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  15. "Pre-feasibility Report" (PDF). unlivemuseum.org/. Association for a UN Live Museum. 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-01-20.
  16. "Association For A Un Live Museum: CVR-nr 35966048". proff.dk. Archived from the original on 27 January 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  17. "Association for a UN Live Museum". bikubenfonden.dk. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  18. "More Information". unlivemuseum.org. The Association for a UN Live Museum. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  19. "UN Live Museum Initiative". m-trust.org. Archived from the original on 20 January 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  20. "Secretary-General appoints Jan Mattsson of Sweden as Executive DIrector of United Nations Office for Project Services". www.un.org. 2006-05-15. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  21. "Contributors". unlivemuseum.org. The Association for a UN Live Museum. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
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