Preface
Introduction
Part 1
Chapter 1 The economization of museums and the ‘truth’ of space
Chapter 2 Landscapes of potential: the social and spatial underpinnings of museums
Chapter 3 Design for creative lives: new museum design cultures
Bibliography
Part 2
- Battersea Arts Centre, London, UK, 2007-
- Blue House, Wanchai, Hong Kong, 2017
- Boston Children’s Museum, Boston, USA, 1960s
- Derby Silk Mill Museum of Making, Derby, UK, 2020
- District Six Museum, Cape Town, South Africa, 1994-present
- Exile, Kingston Lacy, UK, 2017
- Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA, 1969
- Festival of Britain, London, UK, 1951
- Fun Palace, London, UK, 1960-75
- Galleries of Modern London, Museum of London, UK, 2004-10
- Guggenheim Helsinki, Finland, 2013-16
- Humankind, Calke Abbey, UK, 2019-20
- Jubilee Arts, The Bus Project, UK, 1978-84
- Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, UK, 1998-2006
- Launchpad, Science Museum, London, UK, 1986
- Lost Childhoods, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, USA, 2017
- Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, 1958
- Museo Casa de la Memoria Medellin, Colombia, 2012-
- Museo Taller Ferrowhite, Bahia Blanca, Argentina, 2004-
- Museum at the Gateway Arch, St Louis, USA, 2018
- National Human Rights Museum, Jing-Mei White Terror Memorial Park, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011-
- Parque Explora, Medellín, Colombia, 2008-
- Pride and Prejudice, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK, 2014-19
- SESC Pompéia, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1982
- Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, New York, USA, 2015
- Talking About… Disability and Art, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK, 2006-8
- The Past is Now, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK, 2017
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, USA, 1993-
Biography
Suzanne MacLeod is Professor of Museum Studies at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, where she also undertakes collaborative and practice-centred research with a range of cultural institutions in the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries. She is author of Museum Architecture: A New Biography and co-editor of The Future of Museum and Gallery Design, Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions, and Reshaping Museum Space: Architecture, Design, Exhibitions.
"For anyone who believes that museums have the potential to act as powerful agents for social change, Museums and Design for Creative Lives is a must-read. MacLeod applies a theoretical framework of social space to current museum practice that not only identifies unchallenged assumptions about goals, standards, and processes in museums, but also articulates essential qualities and values inherent in what she calls "progressive museum design." The theory comes to life in the second part of the book, which explores the many visions, intentions, and design practices in 28 museum case studies of progressive museum design from around the world. Most importantly, MacLeod summarizes with six frames of mind or calls to action that provide us with concrete, provocative, and energizing ways forward." — Kathleen McLean, USA
