LISTEN. LIKE. SHARE.

The exhibition was part of the Museum Hackers project, a collaboration between the Rock Museum and the INSP cultural center. The project is supported by the Agency for Culture and Palaces, and its aim is to make the Rock Museum more relevant to the very people it is primarily about: young people.

“True, we are a cultural history museum that, in many respects, looks backward. But to remain relevant and forward-looking, we must also look to the future and observe how things are evolving. It is the past that meets the present and points toward the future,” says Isabella No’omi Fuglø, public engagement manager at the ROMU museum group.

That is why, over the course of the fall, the museum has held five workshops with an 8th-grade class from Østervangskolen in Roskilde. In collaboration with the Rock Museum’s seasoned exhibition staff, the students’ thoughts and ideas have been transformed into LYT. LIKE. DEL, which will be on view through the fall.

“Normally, we’re the experts on youth culture and rock and pop history, but here we’re bringing in others and learning from them. We’ve gone on a journey of discovery with the young people and, together with them, gathered new knowledge that we can put into perspective and place within a cultural-historical context.”

She calls the exhibition a generational meeting that—even though it was created in collaboration with young people—speaks to a much broader audience than just those with a TikTok profile.

“Teenagers as a phenomenon are, after all, a melting pot of identity formation. They have always been characterized by the fact that this is where the new and the groundbreaking changes begin. So even though the focus is on young people, they represent something we all tap into. We’ve talked several times during this process about how, if it had been possible back then, the Beatles would have been huge on TikTok,” concludes Isabella No’omi Fuglø.

LISTEN. LIKE. SHARE. was on view at the Rock Museum from January through October 2024.