Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions

Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions By Suzanne Macleod, Laura Hourston Hanks, Jonathan Hale

2012 | 360 Pages | ISBN: 0415676037 , 0415676029 | PDF | 12 MB

Over recent decades, many museums, galleries and historic sites around the world have enjoyed an unprecedented level of large-scale investment in their capital infrastructure, in building refurbishments and new gallery displays. This period has also seen the creation of countless new purpose-built museums and galleries, suggesting a fundamental re-evaluation of the processes of designing and shaping of museums.
Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions examines this re-making by exploring the inherently spatial character of narrative in the museum and its potential to connect on the deepest levels with human perception and imagination. Through this uniting theme, the chapters explore the power of narratives as structured experiences unfolding in space and time as well as the use of theatre, film and other technologies of storytelling by contemporary museum makers to generate meaningful and, it is argued here, highly effective and affective museum spaces. Contributions by an internationally diverse group of museum and heritage professionals, exhibition designers, architects and artists with academics from a range of disciplines including museum studies, theatre studies, architecture, design and history cut across traditional boundaries including the historical and the contemporary and together explore the various roles and functions of narrative as a mechanism for the creation of engaging and meaningful interpretive environments.

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Norman Foster and The British Museum

Norman Foster and The British Museum
# Paperback: 120 pages
# Publisher: Prestel; 1st Edition. edition (August 2001)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 3791325418
# ISBN-13: 978-3791325415
# Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 9.9 x 2.1 inches
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With an introduction by Norman Foster
And essays by Deyan Sudjic and Spencer de Grey

A landmark in the history of the British Museum and one of Norman Foster ’s most significant projects to date, the Great Court has reclaimed and reinvigorated one of London ’s most important public spaces, transforming the Museum. Published to coincide with a major retrospective of Foster ’s work held at the British Museum, this book brings together essays, design drawings, and photographs to provide an unprecedented account of the development and completion of Foster ’s project.

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An introductory essay by Deyan Sudjic presents the Great Court as the culmination of centuries of change within the Museum .a reconciliation of past and future, which has both restored and transfigured the heart of this public institution. Spencer de Grey, a partner at Foster and Partners, documents the design and construction of the individual elements within the Great Court and the vast glazed canopy, which surmounts them. Introduced by Norman Foster and richly illustrated with photographs of the Great Court during construction and in its spectacular finished state, this book provides an insight into the evolution of one of London ’s most remarkable architectural spaces.

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New Museum Theory and Practice

New Museum Theory and Practice: An Introduction By Janet Marstine
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN: 1405105585 | edition 2005 | PDF | 352 pages | 1,5 mb
New Museum Theory and Practice is an original collection of essays with a unique focus: the contested politics and ideologies of museum exhibition.
Contains 12 original essays that contribute to the field while creating a collective whole for course use.
Discusses theory through vivid examples and historical overviews.
Offers guidance on how to put theory into practice.
Covers a range of museums around the world: from art to history, anthropology to music, as well as historic houses, cultural centres, virtual sites, and commercial displays that use the conventions of the museum.
Authors come from the UK, Canada, the US, and Australia, and from a variety of fields that inform cultural studies.

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Frank O. Gehry - Guggenheim Bilbao Museum

Frank O. Gehry, Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa
1998 - 53 pages

There is no doubt that Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is one of the most spectacular buildings of recent years. It is both the heart of the city and a tested for the arts, representing both public presence and artistic change.

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Building Type Basics for Museums

Building Type Basics for Museums
Publisher: Wiley | ISBN: 0471349151 | edition 2001 | file .CHM | 272 pages | 22,0 mb
The fastest way to straighten out the learning curve on specialized design projects. Building Type Basics books provide architects with the essentials they need to jump-start the design of a variety of specialized facilities. In each volume, leading national figures in the field address the key questions that shape the early phases of a project commission. The answers to these questions provide instant information in a convenient, easy-to-use format. The result is an excellent, hands-on reference that puts critical information at your fingertips.Building Type Basics for Museums provides the essential information needed to initiate designs for art, science, and natural history museums, ethnic art and cultural centers, youth museums, and more. Filled with project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details, it combines in-depth coverage of the structural, mechanical, acoustic, traffic, and safety issues that are unique to museums and cultural facilities with the nuts-and-bolts design guidelines that will start any project off on the right track and keep it there through completion.

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• Art Museums
• History Museums
• Children's and Youth Museums
• Science and Natural History Museums
• Specialized Museums and Galleries

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