Suzanne MacLeod (ed.)

Reshaping Museum Space

Herausgeber: Macleod, Suzanne

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 177mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9780415343442
• ISBN-10: 0415343445
• Artikelnr.: 21233647

Autorenporträt

Suzanne MacLeod

Inhaltsangabe

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