1st Edition

Reshaping Museum Space

Edited By Suzanne Macleod Copyright 2005
256 Pages
by Routledge

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,... Read more

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