1st Edition

Reshaping Museum Space

Edited By Suzanne Macleod Copyright 2005
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Section 1: On the Nature of Museum Space  1. Rethinking Museum Architecture: Towards a Site-Specific History of Production and Use  2. Black Box Science in Black Box Science Centres  3. Space and the Machine: Adaptive Museums, Pervasive Technology and the New Gallery Environment  4. Creative Space  Section 2: Architectural Reshaping  5. From Cultural Institution to Cultural Consumer Experience: Manchester Art Gallery Expansion Project  6. Spatial Culture, Way-Finding and the Educational Message: The Impact of Layout on the Spatial, Social and Educational Experiences of Visitors to Museums and Galleries  7. The Grande Galerie de l'Evolution: An Alternative Cognitive experience  8. Producing a Public for Art: Gallery Space in the Twenty-First Century  9. Towards a New Museum Architecture: Narrative and Representation  Section 3: Inside Spaces  10. Building on Victorian Ideas  11. Representing Enlightenment Space  12. The Studio in the Gallery?  13. When Worlds Collide: The Contemporary Museum as Art Gallery  14. Constructing and Communicating Equality: The Social Agency of Museum Space  Section 4: Creative Space  15. Threshold Fear  16. From Cathedra;s of Culture to Anchor Attractor  17. The Vital Museum

    Biography

    Suzanne MacLeod