Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle will appear at the opening of the Facebook Museum on 10 April 2026, hosted at the Next Nature Museum (Evoluon) in Eindhoven.
Event Details
📅 Date: Friday, 10 April 2026
⏰ Time: 17:30 – 21:00 CET
📍 Location: Next Nature Museum (Evoluon), Eindhoven
🎟 Tickets: nextnature.org
The Facebook Museum is a project by Utrecht-based arts and technology organisation SETUP. It asks a deceptively simple question: why can’t we let Facebook go? Rather than leading with guilt or pushing alternatives, it invites visitors to sit with the emotional reality of digital attachment: the memories, the connections, the years of life stored on someone else’s servers. The museum runs at the Next Nature Museum in Eindhoven from April through September 2026.
The opening evening brings together three speakers. Marissa Memelink, the researcher behind the Facebook Museum, will share what the project has revealed about our relationship with the platform. Siri Beerends, cultural sociologist at SETUP, will explore why we are not simply passive victims of big tech, but active participants in the systems that hold us. Brewster will speak about the values and vision behind the Internet Archive: why archiving matters, who it serves, and what is at stake when the memory of the web depends on infrastructure that most people never see or think about. A panel discussion and audience conversation will follow.
After the programme, the museum opens for a self-guided visit, a Digital Wellness Center, and a workshop where visitors can create a scrapbook “obituary” for their Facebook account.
This is exactly the kind of conversation the Internet Archive exists to support. Digital memory is not just about institutions and servers. It is about what we as individuals and communities have built online, and whether we retain any meaningful relationship to it.
