understanding Museum design

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A Non-profit making permanentinstitution in the service of society andof its development and opens to thepublic which acquires, conserves,

researches, communicates andexhibits for the purpose of study,education, employment and materialevidence of man and his environment.


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Earliest organized Museum wasestablished in Alexandria, Egypt in 3rdcen. BC

For a long time after this, no propermuseum development took place

In the 14thCen. BC, after renaissance,there was a revival in the interest ofMuseum

First public museum opened inOxford in 1683

It was followed by British Museum in1753

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phase from 14

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up to 17

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Storing the objects of artistic and scientificinterest

2nd

phase- 18

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and 19

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Many of the museums were taken over by thestate which turned them into publicinstitutions

3rd

phase 20

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Assumed an educational role

4

th

phase-since1970

More concerned with entertainment, tourismand income generation

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Importance of Architecture in museums

The important objects in the collection must be preserved, and preservation often

requires very specific environments.

The environment must be comfortable for people, enabling their movement through tspace and providing for their safety.

Museum architecture is designed to make a statement about the community.

A museum must have adequate space to store the collection of objects that it house

Museum architecture must be designed to provide a climate that will preserve theobjects, controlling temperature, humidity, and light.

Sometimes different objects require different conditions, so museum architecture mayhave to provide different specialized climates within the same building.

Work space for preservation and restoration must be included .


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Creating a Museum space

Museum RequirementsUser Circul

Display and s

Administra

Access and s

Spatial Programming

Place Making

(Interaction with built up area &surrounding)


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Logical comprehension of interrelationship among various activitieof Museum.

Analysing different patterns of interaction ofExhibition layout and museum building design.

Satisfying all the aspects of design like Bioclimate, daylighting,natural ventilation, intelligent systems, construction technology,acoustics and cost analysis.

Striving for maximum efficacy in Museum Experience.


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1. Open plan: Large and visuallyautonomous items on display, freecirculation, Function rooms inbasement

2. Core and satellite rooms:Main room for the orientation in themuseum or the exhibition, siderooms, for autonomousdisplays(themes/collections)

3. Linear chaining: linearsequences of rooms, continuedcirculation, clear orientation,separate entrance and exit.

4. Labyrinth: free circulation,guided route and directions arevariable, entrance and exit can beseparate.

5. Complex: combined groups ofrooms with typical features of 1. and4., complex organisation ofcollection and display concept.

6. Round tour: similar to linearchaining, controlled circulation leadsback entrance.

EntranceOrientationCloak room

Pay deskWC

Cafe, barRestaurant

shopConference

rooms

Permanentexhibition,Temporaryexhibition

LibraryLecture hall

DirectorAdministration

CataloguesCopy room

Library Archive

Store

Restoration

Andconservationworkshops

Privatearea

Public, Controlled area


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The display layout must exploit the qualities of the setting in order tomaximize the impact of the objects. A distinguishing spatial quality of themuseums and a consistent property of their display, is cross-visibility aimon the one hand, to create a visual effect and on the other hand, to operatea powerful means for mediating additional relationships between works,

multiplying affinities and cross-references.


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Thevisu l experience

exist to generate something new - new relations, new

ideas, new encounter patterns. This is, what essentially differentiates themfrom the previously discussed cases which exist to reproduce.

As it will be made clear, the reason for this is that, in contrastto the long models which tend to resemble one another, short models tend individualization.


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This close link between design choicesand display decisions can extend beyondthe aesthetic and visual aspect, and that

syntactic (spatial) and semantic (objects)aspects of the layout seem in some kindof a relation of correspondence,meaning that we understand the relationof works of art by the proximity and therelation of spaces.


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