ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|56 pages
On the nature of museum space
chapter 1|17 pages
Rethinking museum architecture
chapter 3|14 pages
Space and the machine
part II|68 pages
Architectural reshaping
chapter 5|13 pages
From cultural institution to cultural consumer experience
chapter 6|17 pages
Spatial culture, way-finding and the educational message
part III|70 pages
Inside spaces
part IV|37 pages
Creative space