ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the museums and how they reorganise to disseminate their collections online. It analyses curatorial actions the museums undertake to open up for public curatorial agency. The chapter focuses on digital curatorial agency in the intersection of cultural policy, public digital infrastructures, and global informational capitalism. Work with digital collections and social media were instead shared between two major departments at the museum: The Department for Cultural History and Collection and the Department for Exhibitions, Marketing and Visitor Services. The size and scope of the Nordic Museum’s collection created different conditions for digital curatorial agency than at the former agency. In 2011, the Swedish government decided that all heritage institutions with a national scope must deliver a digital strategy for 2015-2025. The Creative Commons licenses museums use to open up for dissemination and a wealth of interpretations both challenge and submit to capitalism, and make way for digital historical objects on the internet.
