ABSTRACT
Throughout the world, museums are housed in an extraordinarily wide range of buildings. Buildings used by museums fall into two general categories – purposebuilt and conversions. They include:
• historic, purpose-built museum buildings; • contemporary, purpose-built museum buildings; • important historic or contemporary buildings – originally used for domestic,
public service/state, commercial, industrial, religious or military purposes – which have been converted wholly or in part for museum use; and
• redundant buildings of limited architectural significance.
