Essay On Museum Blueprint

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The ideal museum blueprint
Integration-connectivity-control

The past years have seen both an unusual increase in the number of museums throughout the world and an astonishing expansion and diversification in the services provided. This work focuses on museums as the intricate amalgam of historical structures and narratives and the way they have marketed their narratives and strategies of display to their audiences.
The aim of this project is to investigate shifting and diverse culture of museums and art galleries as a socio-cultural environment.
Can the spatial design makes a difference in people’s minds, and if so, what sort of difference? What can we learn about the capacity of morphology to influence space use patterns by investigating the effects of local visibility relationships? How much of our experience of museums is shaped by the way galleries and objects are planned spatially? To explore these questions, I began my research by investigating the role of museums in current culture by narrowing down to three cases: the Herbert art gallery and museum, the Louvre and Centre Pompidou.
How does their architecture affect our experience of walking through them? How does it relate to the exhibited art? Intrigued by these questions and believing that space can be seen as the content of the museum building, as important as the objects themselves, this paper presents answers regarding the relation between spatial design and display layout.
I began conducting a secondary online research on the museum’s websites in order to find out information about their architectural layouts and division of spaces. My main findings focus on the narratives structured in exhibition layouts with the help of visitable sequences and gathering space...

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... will balance the established authority by the reception (inspector's lodge).
In conclusion my conceptual model is a proposed representation shaped by a number of basic theories. It is a way of reading a museum as a space of education and leisure. The ideas could be a source of inspiration for potential designers for their strategic planning. More important is that the model can always be improved by new theories of handling space and exhibit layouts.
This project made me understand that enjoying art and appreciating a building’s architecture are not contradictory purposes but complementary aspects of a museum visit. After we leave a museum we don’t only leave with knowledge about art but also with different states of mind that can only be shaped by the environment. The museum experience is a whole package of stimulants such as colour, space, light and movement.

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