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Celebration sounds at the table

Spraying whipped cream on your cupcake, the bottles going into the glass recycling bin after your party, or the last dollop of mayo you squeeze out of the bottle: together with artist Elise ‘t Hart, we are looking for the sound of celebration at the table. Invite the LAM museum to your party or add your video with sound to the archive.

Written by Froukje

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21 May 2024

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CELEBRATION SOUND AT THE TABLE

BECOMES ARTWORK AT THE MUSEUM

Lighting the candles on your cake, uncorking the champagne, or that crunching rusk with sprinkles: these are the sounds you usually don’t consciously hear but later instantly bring you back to past birthdays or special milestones in your life. The LAM museum and sound artist Elise ‘t Hart are looking for celebration sounds. These celebration sounds will eventually form an artwork that will be on display at the LAM museum from the Christmas holiday 2024/2025.

Add your party

To the museum collection

Have you graduated, is it your birthday, are you having a baby, getting married, or do you have something else to celebrate? Invite the LAM museum to your party in June 2024 via info@lammuseum.nl. Together, we will immortalize your unique celebration sound.

You can also add a sound to the database yourself. Make a horizontal video with a celebration sound and upload it to artist Elise ‘t Hart’s website. The video with the celebration sound should:

Be related to food, drink, or shopping (the theme of our collection)
Be recorded in landscape mode
Try to make the surroundings quiet for a moment so that your celebration sound can be heard clearly

A resonant

memory

Everyone has them and everyone takes them: photos of the birthday person blowing out the candles, photos of the family at Christmas dinner, and endless photos of the bride and groom cutting the cake. Artist Elise ‘t Hart finds this strange. Sounds are much more evocative. Like scents, sounds instantly take you back to past moments. As an artist, Elise ‘t Hart wants to give everyday sounds a stage. Over the past few years, she has built a large collection of sounds: the Institute for Household Sound, where you can hear squeaky faxes, shuffling slippers, starting team meetings, and steaming coffee machines.

Now, together with the LAM museum, she is starting a new chapter and a new collection: the sound of celebration at the table in the Netherlands.

Froukje
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Froukje works as Head of Communications for the LAM museum. She collaborates on strategy, maintains contacts with the press & media, and tries to get you just as excited about the museum's unique concept as she is. 'I find joy in artworks that give you a Eureka moment. Artworks that open the windows in your mind and freshen things up.'
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The LAM museum’s collection includes 3D images, art installations, paintings, sound art and digital art. That sounds like a lot (it is!). But there’s method in the madness: each work focuses on food, drink or shopping. Did we mention the LAM museum has the world’s largest collection of food art?
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The LAM museum adds spice and sparkle to every visit. Ready for a brain-teasing picture hunt or a fun game? Can you get a full house on your own personal bingo card? Or maybe you want to tingle your tastebuds? Our surprise activities are designed to change not only your perspective on the art you see but also on the life you live.
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The LAM museum building itself

is arguably part of the collection

Some visitors say it’s the best work of art at the LAM museum. Designed by Arie Korbee, the raised museum looks right at home in the canopy.
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We can talk the talk. But the only words that matter are yours. Here’s what you have to say about us.
Claudia Peters
11:47 30 Oct 23
Zo leuk. Mooi gebouw onder architectuur, gevarieerd aanbod, lekker fleurig. Ik blijf mij positief verrassen. Ga hier vaker heen. Aansluitend met een wandeling door het bos.
Peter Dijt
17:57 29 Oct 23
Goed museum van 'Dirk' over.... (ik zal het niet verklappen) past ook niet in de stijl van het museum. Geen infobordjes aan de muren, maar met de aardige kijkcoaches kom je een eind. Start met de lift omhoog naar de derde etage en loop rustig terug. Prima.
Er is geen horeca. Maar vlakbij is er het cafetaria van kasteel Keukenhof.
Arthur van den Boorn
08:32 29 Oct 23
Erg leuk museum met verrassende kunst in een leuke omgeving. Top voor kids
Pennie Arbouw-Heimans
06:55 29 Oct 23
Wat een verrassing! En zulke fijne gezellige hosts waar je een heerlijk gesprek over kunst mee kan aangaan en die echt geïnteresseerd in je zijn en tijd voor je hebben! Aanrader, we gaan zeker weer n keer mini vakantie-een (ook voor t gebouw en de omgeving: dikke aanrader).
Corrie Loogman
14:17 23 Oct 23
Prachtig modern gebouw met veel licht. Een heldere uitleg bij binnenkomst over de collectie en de unieke wijze waarop bezoekers antwoord kunnen krijgen op vragen.
Op de verschillende verdiepingen waren kijkcoaches die enthousiast en kundig uitleg gaven.
Een aanrader.
naomi plaat
21:04 28 Sep 23
Veelzijdig, verrassend en gewoon leuk - voor iedereen!

Prachtig museum, vriendelijk ontvangst, prettige sfeer, en veelzijdige collectie.

Interactie met de kijkcoaches is een unieke toegevoegde waarde. Toegang is spotgoedkoop dus hebben wij extra sponsor bedrag gegeven.

Mooi park met ook een kasteel, bloementuin en weiland, beelden en restaurant de hofboerderij.
Heerlijke middag gehad in Lisse.

Makkelijk en gratis parkeren. Schone toiletten. Kluisjes. Vooraf tijdslot reserveren is wel handig.
Jelle Westra
15:06 27 Sep 23
Geweldig leuk museum! Geen hoogdraverij, maar aansprekende eigentijdse kunstwerken die je verrassen en intrigeren. Prima app om meer te weten te komen over de kunstwerken. Maar nog leuker is het om in gesprek te raken met de verschillende enthousiaste medewerkers die overal rondlopen. Als je de tijd hebt kun je hier makkelijk 1 a 2 uur rondbrengen. Het is een prachtig gebouw in een mooie groene setting waar je leuk kunt wandelen.
Neeltje van der Wouden
13:17 18 Sep 23
Het LAMmuseum is een verborgen parel! Wat een prachtige collectie in een licht modern gebouw op een geweldig mooi landgoed. Een warm welkom bij binnenkomst en je word in iedere zaal vriendelijk en op verfrissende wijze te woord gestaan door de Kijkcoaches. Hier gaat het om anders en écht kijken. Wat doet de kunst met mij? Dat levert interessante en inspirerende gesprekken op! Een aanrader voor jong en oud!
Richard Wering
06:54 22 Jul 23
Het is een fantastisch museum. De medewerkers doen hun best om met jou de kunst te beleven. We hadden inspirerende gesprekken over kunst. Je voelt je welkom.

De kunst is van hoge kwaliteit, zeer goede kunstwerken soms van belangrijke kunstenaars. De keuze van het werk heeft als thema voedsel of de consumptiemaatschappij. Het is toegankelijke kunst, die je toch aan het denken zet. Anders doen de medewerkers of de interactieve app het wel.

Niet twijfelen gewoon gaan ervaren.
Claudia Peters
11:47 30 Oct 23
So funny. Beautiful architectural building, varied offering, nice and colorful. I continue to be positively surprised. Go here more often. Followed by a walk through the forest.
Pennie Arbouw-Heimans
06:55 29 Oct 23
What a surprise! And such wonderful, friendly hosts with whom you can have a wonderful conversation about art and who are really interested in you and have time for you! Recommended, we will definitely go for a mini holiday again (also for the building and the surrounding area: highly recommended).
Willem Janssen
17:02 28 Sep 23
LAM is a beautiful museum with a wonderful, modern art collection around the theme of food. The approach of the "spectator coaches" is great, you learn a lot more than usual, and you have to ask the right questions. The visit to LAM takes a good hour and if you add the sculpture garden two hours. We came with a group of 22 and we were split into three groups (maximum of 10 people can enter at a time). Everyone enjoyed it and the rest of the day we kept on talking about what we had seen.
Liz Nixon
11:50 15 Aug 23
Great museum, very friendly and helpful staff. The current expo themed around food showing all sorts of weird and wonderful items, and being able to sample some of the icecream afterwards was a treat.
Set in the beautiful location of Keukenhof Castle, you can go for a walk around the gardens while you are there. I will definitely visit again.
Madzia Koseńczuk
06:32 20 Jun 23
Very unique museum ? based on consumerism. Each artwork is amazing and worth thinking of ?
Maarten de Groot
20:07 08 Apr 23
Awesome museum! It starts with the beautifully architecture of the building, but then the central theme of food & consumption, the very visually appealing art and the whole concept of "just walk around and have a chat with us, or we with you" instead of endless signs turns this into an experience that myself and my 4 year old son absolutely loved!
marceline suijs
17:07 09 Jan 23
Very interesting art. A mixed collection with something to everybody’s liking. I love the way there are no signs and you have to connect with the museum staff if you want to know more about the art. Like with the artwork, you connect easier with some than others, so also on a social level very interesting. A place for everybody!

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