Reshaping museum space : architecture, design, exhibitions /

"Reshaping Museum Space pulls together the views of an international group of museum professionals, architects, designers and academics, highlighting the complexity, significance and malleability of museum space, and provides reflections upon recent developments in museum architecture and exhib...

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Other authors / contributors: Macleod, Suzanne
Imprint: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Format: Book
Language:English
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Series:Museum meanings.
Table of Contents:
  • Rethinking museum architecture : towards a site-specific history of production and use / Suzanne MacLeod
  • Black box science in black box science centres / Richard Toon
  • Space and the machine : adaptive museums, pervasive technology and the new gallery environment / Ross Parry and Andrew Sawyer
  • Creative space / David Fleming
  • From cultural institution to cultural consumer experience : Manchester Art Gallery expansion project / Moira Stevenson
  • Spatial culture, way-finding, and the educational message : the impact of layout on the spatial, social, and educational experiences of visitors to museums and galleries / Sophia Psarra
  • The Grande Galerie de l'Evolution : an alternative cognitive experience / Fabienne Galangau-Quérat
  • Producing a public for art : gallery space in the twenty-first century / Helen Rees Leahy
  • Towards a new museum architecture : narrative and representation / Lee H. Skolnick
  • Building on Victorian ideas / Lawrence Fitzgerald
  • Representing Enlightenment space / Beth Lord
  • The studio in the gallery? / Jon Wood
  • When worlds colllide : the contemporary museum as art gallery / Christopher R. Marshall
  • Constructing and communicating equality : the social agency of museum space / Richard Sandell
  • Threshold fear / Elaine Heumann Gurian
  • From cathedral of culture to anchor attractor
  • The vital museum / Stephen Greenberg.