Established 2016 Director Jan Mattsson | Location Copenhagen, Denmark | |
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UN Live: Museum for Humanity is a future museum of the United Nations based in Copenhagen envisaged to have three "platforms":
Confirmation of the plan was announced in October 2016, with digital services operating from 2017, before the physical building is constructed, with a five-year budget of €350 million.
The museum's executive director is Jan Mattsson, formerly the Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services. The associate director is Michael Edson, formerly the head of web at the Smithsonian Institution.
Pre-feasibility report
Launched in 2015, the pre-feasibility study called for funding over a five-year period of €356 million. 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".
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. It was funded and supported by Bikubenfonden, Rambøll, Realdania, the Nordea Foundation, the Obel Foundation, and Mattsson's own company M-Trust Leadership. 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 and the Chair of the "design and content committee" for the study was artist Olafur Eliasson.