In July 2025, the Dutch Media Art Collective SETUP opened the world’s first temporary Facebook Museum for a few days in the main hall of Utrecht Central Station, the Netherlands’ busiest railway station. A Dutch-language pop-up museum where visitors could donate their own Facebook data, relive memories, and discuss their digital identity. The project attracted over 5,000 visitors and received widespread national media attention. The response illustrated the heartfelt need to reflect not only critically, but also emotionally and collectively on our digital past – and with it our digital future. Now that the project is going into its next stage, here’s the first story in English about the Facebook Museum, written by SETUP’s staff member Marissa Memelink:
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