SKD Dresden
The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) is one of the oldest and most prestigious museum networks in the world. They wanted clarity on what blockchain could realistically do for a cultural institution: not hype, not roadmaps to nowhere, just useful framing.
Overview
The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) is one of the oldest and most prestigious museum networks in the world. They wanted clarity on what blockchain could realistically do for a cultural institution: not hype, not roadmaps to nowhere, just useful framing.
The Challenge
Cultural institutions get pitched blockchain ideas constantly. Most of them don't survive contact with budget reality, audience expectations, or the institution's actual mandate. SKD needed an outside team that knew the technology deeply enough to call out which use cases were real and which were marketing material.
What We Did
We delivered workshops on blockchain fundamentals, evaluated business cases and strategy options grounded in cultural-institution realities, and laid out event strategies and plans across 2023–2024. No code shipped. Better decisions did.
Outcomes
What We Learned
The most valuable thing you can give a non-tech client is the courage to say no to bad ideas. Most of our workshop time wasn't spent teaching blockchain. It was spent ruling out use cases that wouldn't survive their first year. Strategy is mostly subtraction.
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