ABSTRACT
Throughout its history, the museum has oscillated from a storehouse to a site of display and a place of research, variously promoting agendas of entertainment and education. Examining the evolution of museum architecture demonstrates the diversity of ways that museum buildings orchestrate movement and stage experience in a manner that supports particular museological agendas. This highlights different ways that architecture of museums constructs particular narratives of experience and meaning, engages with social, cultural, and symbolic agendas, and establishes specific relationships to the physical, social, and cultural contexts in which they are located.
