The European project Inside Installations. Preservation and Presentation of Installations Art has been successfully completed. Between June 2004 and August 2007, 33 case studies of installation works of art have profoundly been researched and re-installed as part of this project. The installation works selected, mostly dating from 1995 to 2005, raised a wide range of questions and asked for specific approaches. At the same time, individual case studies referred to general themes of the project and, in addition to the case studies, in-depth research has been carried out for the following five areas, i.e Preservation, Artist’s Participation, Documentation Strategies, Theory & Semantics, and Knowledge Management & Information Exchange. Case studies results, recorded lectures and good practice in all research areas are accessible via the project's website.

In total, around 50 people from over 25 museums and institutions, located in 6 European countries have been involved in this three year project which was funded by the European Commission, Culture 2000 Programme.

The project was co-organised by Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage / ICN, Tate (UK), S.M.A.K. (Belgium), Restaurierungszentrum Düsseldorf, Foundation for the Conservation of Contemporary Art/ SBMK (The Netherlands) and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.

The project results have been summarised in an Inside Installations Booklet which is available for free. If you would like to recieve a hard copy please send an email to the This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  and provide your complete postal address.

You can also download a PDF of the booklet here:

Inside Installations booklet

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