Reshaping Museum Space pulls together the views of an international group of museum professionals, architects, designers and academics highlights the complexity, significance and malleability of museum space, and provides reflections upon recent developments in museum architecture and exhibition design.
Various chapters concentrate on the process of architectural and spatial reshaping, and the problems of navigating the often contradictory agendas and aspirations of the broad range of professionals and stakeholders involved in any new project.
Contributors review...
Reshaping Museum Space pulls together the views of an international group of museum professionals, architects, designers and academics hig...
Over recent decades, many museums, galleries and historic sites around the world have enjoyed an unprecedented level of large-scale investment in their capital infrastructure, in building refurbishments and new gallery displays. This period has also seen the creation of countless new purpose-built museums and galleries, suggesting a fundamental re-evaluation of the processes of designing and shaping of museums. Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions examines this re-making by exploring the inherently spatial character of narrative in the museum and its potential to connect on...
Over recent decades, many museums, galleries and historic sites around the world have enjoyed an unprecedented level of large-scale investment in thei...
Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of museum building around the world and the subsequent development of a body of research to understand the myriad issues. "Museum Architecture: A New Biography "focuses on the stories we tell of museum buildings in order to explore the nature of museum architecture and the problems of architectural history when applied to the museum and gallery. Starting from a discussion of the key issues in contemporary museum design, the book explores the role of architectural history in the prioritization of specific stories of museum building and museum...
Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of museum building around the world and the subsequent development of a body of research to understand t...
