Imagine: you start playing with Lego as a child, and 30 years later you have your own Lego museum at the place where it all began for Lego in the Netherlands. Or, as a 10-year-old boy, you collected shells on Schiermonnikoog and now you have your own natural history museum there. Or, you begin documenting your model train adventures on Instagram and before you know it, you have 30,000 followers.

Completely losing ourselves in a hobby is not new. However, in recent years, it seems increasingly important to have a physical hobby as our work becomes more digitalized. What are we looking for in our hobbies and what do they do for us? We will discuss this with experts Richard Topelen (Legio Museum), Klaas Nanninga (Natural History Museum), Emiel Prick (@modelrailway187), and Jelle Wiering, researcher at the University of Groningen.