Museum programme

Please note that deadline for expression of interest was 13. October 2022 at 1pm. 

VELUX FONDEN supports projects to boost research and mediation at Danish museums. 

VELUX FONDEN's Museum Programme supports projects at Danish museums that reinforce collaboration between the museums' researchers and mediators and the universities' humanities researchers, and help to improve the outreach of research-based discoveries to the general public through engaging and compelling state-of-the-art mediation methods geared to today's museum visitors.

The Programme is under ongoing development in collaboration and close dialogue with a number of the many and diverse museums across Denmark to ensure that the evolving Programme incorporates the museums' own suggestions, concerns and preferences.

Background and grants

In 2014, VELUX FONDEN resolved, under its non-profit activities, to earmark special grant allocations for the purpose of supporting research and mediation efforts at Danish museums.

Based on the desire to accommodate the museums' current situation and challenges, from the outset, VELUX FONDEN has sought to design its Museum Programme in close dialogue with museums across Denmark to ensure that the Programme incorporates their own suggestions, concerns and preferences. To that end, in 2013 and 2014, VELUX FONDEN conducted a number of meetings with diverse museums nationwide. The outcome of the dialogue meetings has been significant in defining the Museum Programme's purpose, project criteria and grant instruments. VELUX FONDEN will seek to continue its ongoing dialogue with the museums.