SETS presentation Sportimonium

1. Sportimonium
a museum about movement culture, sports,
traditional games

2. Scope of the museum
Movement culture in a broad sense
Three emphases
- Traditional games
- Gymnastics
- Modern sports (& Olympic Games)

3. Research project
Flemish Folk Games Files (1973)
[led by prof. dr. Roland Renson, KU Leuven]
Vlaamse Volkssportcentrale (1980)
Sportmuseum Vlaanderen (1985)
Vlaamse Traditionele Sporten
- VlaS (1988)
Sportimonium (2004/2009)

4. - 1973
- in the absence of written sources:
collecting the data via participant
observation
- 1500 files
- 50 master dissertations &
1 doctoral dissertation
- surprising amount of sports and
games
Research project
Flemish Folk Games Files

5. - publications
- traditional games routes
- travelling exhibitions
- demonstrations/lectures
- library
- research
- permanent exhibition
- traditional games garden
- workshop
- lending service
Safeguarding

6. Travelling exhibitions

7. Demonstrations

8. Library/archives

9. Researche

10. Traditional games: part of the permanent
exhibition

11. Traditional games: part of the permanent
exhibition

12. Traditional games: part of the
permanent exhibition

13. Traditional games garden / Pub
games indoors

14. Workshop

15. Lending service

16. Collaboration
• Vlaamse Traditionele Sporten vzw (VlaS)
• Association Européenne de Jeux et Sports
Traditionnels (ETSGA)
• International Traditional Sports and Games
Association (ITSGA)
• Unesco (Convention 2003 – Intangible Cultural
Heritage

17. ‘best safeguarding practice’, 24 November 2011