Reshaping Museum Space
Published on 9. October 2005
256 pages
978-1-134-28997-4 (ISBN)
Description
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 recent new build, expansion and exhibition projects questioning the types of museum space required at the beginning of the twenty-first century and highlighting a range of possibilities for creative museum design.
Essential reading for anyone involved in creating, designing and project managing the development of museum exhibits, and vital reading for students of the discipline.
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 recent new build, expansion and exhibition projects questioning the types of museum space required at the beginning of the twenty-first century and highlighting a range of possibilities for creative museum design.
Essential reading for anyone involved in creating, designing and project managing the development of museum exhibits, and vital reading for students of the discipline.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
3,35 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-28997-4 (9781134289974)
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Content
Introduction, MacLeod Suzanne; Part I On the nature of museum space; Chapter 1 Rethinking museum architecture, Suzanne MacLeod; Chapter 2 Black box science in black box science centres, Richard Toon; Chapter 3 Space and the machine, Ross Parry, Andrew Sawyer; Chapter 4 Creative space, David Fleming; Part II Architectural reshaping; Chapter 5 From cultural institution to cultural consumer experience, Moira Stevenson; Chapter 6 Spatial culture, way-finding and the educational message, Sophia Psarra; Chapter 7 The Grande Galerie de l'Evolution, Fabienne Galangau-Querat; Chapter 8 Producing a public for art, Helen Rees Leahy; Chapter 9 Towards a new museum architecture, Lee H. Skolnick; Part III Inside spaces; Chapter 10 Building on Victorian ideas, Lawrence Fitzgerald; Chapter 11 Representing Enlightenment space, Beth Lord; Chapter 12 The studio in the gallery?, Jon Wood; Chapter 13 When worlds collide, Christopher R. Marshall; Chapter 14 Constructing and communicating equality, Richard Sandell; Part IV Creative space; Chapter 15 Threshold fear, Elaine Heumann Gurian; Chapter 16 From cathedral of culture to anchor attractor, Peter Higgins; Chapter 17 The vital museum, Stephen Greenberg;
