UN Live

UN Live: Museum for Humanity is a proposed museum of the United Nations. The museum is envisaged to have three "platforms":^[1]

• UN Live Online
• UN Live Building, "the main physical presence and face of UN Live". Proposed to be part of UN City in Copenhagen, Denmark.
• UN Live Network, "the global, physical presence of UN Live" in partnership with other UN facilities, museums, educational institutions.

Executive Director of the Museum is Jan Mattsson, formerly the Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services.^[2] Associate Director is Michael Edson, formerly the head of web at the Smithsonian Institution.^[3]

Pre-feasibility report

Launched in 2015, the pre-feasibility study called for funding over a five-year period of €356 million.^[4] 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".^[4]

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.^[5] It was funded and supported by Bikubenfonden,^[6] Rambøll, Realdania, the Nordea Foundation, the Obel Foundation,^[7] and Mattsson's own company M-Trust Leadership.^[8] 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^[9] and the Chair of the "design and content committee" for the study was artist Olafur Eliasson.^[10]

References

1. "The Three Platforms". unlivemuseum.org. The Association for a UN Live Museum. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
2. "Mr Jan Mattsson, former Executive Director". UNOPS. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
3. 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.
4. "Pre-feasibility Report" (PDF). unlivemuseum.org/. Association for a UN Live Museum. 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-01-20.
5. "Association For A Un Live Museum: CVR-nr 35966048". proff.dk. Archived from the original on 27 January 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
6. "Association for a UN Live Museum". bikubenfonden.dk. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
7. "More Information". unlivemuseum.org. The Association for a UN Live Museum. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
8. "UN Live Museum Initiative". m-trust.org. Archived from the original on 20 January 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
9. "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.
10. "Contributors". unlivemuseum.org. The Association for a UN Live Museum. Retrieved 20 January 2016.

External links

• The museum official website, unlivemuseum.org
  • Pre-feasibility report (appendices)