UN Live

The Museum for the United Nations — UN Live is a global institution based in Copenhagen.[1][2] It was officially announced on United Nations Day 2016[3] with a mission to "connect people everywhere to the work and values of the United Nations and catalyze global effort towards achieving its goals".

Museum for the United Nations - UN Live
Established2016
LocationCopenhagen, Denmark
CEOMolly Fannon
Websitehttp://museumfortheun.org/

Personnel

The museum's executive director is Jan Mattsson, formerly the Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services.[4] The associate director is Michael Edson, formerly the director of web and new media strategy at the Smithsonian Institution.[5][6] Announced in 2019, the CEO is Molly Voss Fannon, formerly director of international relations, also at the Smithsonian Institution.[7]

The organisation also has an eight person advisory council. As of March 2019 this consists of:[8]

  • Ban Ki-moon; Former UN Secretary-General
  • Ahmad Alhendawi; Secretary-General, World Organization of Scout Movement
  • Darren Walker; President, Ford Foundation
  • Ellen Chilemba; Founder, Tiwale
  • Ilwad Elman; Director of Programs & Development, Elman Peace HRC
  • Jesper Nygård; CEO, Realdania
  • Ricardo Piquet; President, Museum of Tomorrow
  • Trisha Shetty; Founder, SheSays

Pre-feasibility report
External video
A global museum built from the bottom up – TEDx presentation by Michael Edson, September 2016
Vil have museum til Danmark – DR1 news broadcast, June 11, 2018. With statements by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Danish Finance Minister Kristian Jensen

Launched in 2015, the pre-feasibility study called for funding over a five-year period of €356 million.[9] 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".[9]

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.[10] It was funded and supported by Bikubenfonden,[11] Rambøll, Realdania, the Nordea Foundation, the Obel Foundation,[12] and Mattsson's own company M-Trust Leadership.[13] 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[14] and the Chair of the "design and content committee" for the study was artist Olafur Eliasson.[15]

References
  1. "Secretary-General Welcomes Plans to Create New Museum about United Nations in Copenhagen as Instrumental for Supporting Sustainable Development Goals". www.un.org. 2016-10-24. Retrieved 2018-06-16.
  2. "Ban Ki-moon møder mulige donorer i København: Får vi et FN-museum?" [Ban Ki-moon meets potential donors in Copenhagen: Do we get a UN museum?] (in Danish). DR. 2018-06-11. Retrieved 2018-06-16.
  3. "United Nations Day 2016 Announcement of the Creation of the Museum for the United Nations UN Live" (PDF). www.unlivemuseum.org. 2016-10-24. Retrieved 2018-05-16.
  4. "Mr Jan Mattsson, former Executive Director". UNOPS. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  5. 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.
  6. Owens, Trevor (2012-08-09). "Digital Strategy Catches up With the Present: An Interview with Smithsonian's Michael Edson | The Signal". blogs.loc.gov. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  7. "Press Release: Announcing Molly Voss Fannon as new CEO" (PDF). unlivemuseum.org. 2019-03-06.
  8. "Global Leadership Council". Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  9. "Pre-feasibility Report" (PDF). unlivemuseum.org/. Association for a UN Live Museum. 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-01-20.
  10. "Association For A Un Live Museum: CVR-nr 35966048". proff.dk. Archived from the original on 27 January 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  11. "Association for a UN Live Museum". bikubenfonden.dk. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  12. "More Information". unlivemuseum.org. The Association for a UN Live Museum. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  13. "UN Live Museum Initiative". m-trust.org. Archived from the original on 20 January 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  14. "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.
  15. "Contributors". unlivemuseum.org. The Association for a UN Live Museum. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
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