Contents: Introduction The museum as an extraordinary organism The evolution of the box The minimalist object The "museum museum" The self-involved museum The museum as a collage of fragments The anti-museum Forms of dematerialisation Conclusion Bibliography Photographic credits |
If since the end of the 18th century and throughout the nineteenth the museum was consolidated as a new public institution, at the beginning of the 21st century the museum has become a place for the massive influx of an active public and has become integrated into consumer culture in its broadest sense. The museum's relationship with the city and society, as a generator of large urban spaces and a magnet for tourists, has also contributed to the total mutation of the museum's traditional building type.
Profusely illustrated with examples of recent museums, this book is organised into eight chapters, each describing one of the eight trends that can be considered the predominant forms of contemporary museums.
Introduction (extract) The aim of this book is to briefly present an overview of and glimpse into current museum architecture. With the 21st century already underway, this text emphasises those prototypes and projects from the 20th century that have transcended the limits of time and continue to be essential points of reference in the 21st century. Today's museums must be viewed within the context of the trend encouraging the creation, expansion and transformation of museums that has been about since the 1980s, when the post-modern culture of leisure and the culture industry were consolidated within post-industrial society. The massive influx of visitors to museums led to the need to expand services to include temporary exhibitions and outlets for consumption, and brought with it growth in the areas of management, education and conservation. Contemporary museums have followed in the trail of the prototypes of the Modern Movement and some models from the 1950s, recovering the values that have been characteristic of museums throughout history; yet they have simultaneously brought with them a complete transformation of the conventional conception of the museum.
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