Museums of interference
Authors:
- Magdalena Kozień-Woźniak
Abstract
The objectives and tasks of museum architecture are constantly being defined anew. The significance of a museum building within a city constitutes a considerable element of this discussion. Museums have become symbols of cities, districts and regions. There are also museums hidden in parks, far from city centres as places of contemplation. Museums are important public spaces in cities. They are often not used solely to store and present their collections but become centres of culture, featuring workshops, meeting halls, restaurants, coffee shops, bookstores and other shops. In the reflection on the relationship and significance of museum buildings in the city featured below, the author uses a previously proposed distinction that refers to theatrical buildings, which distinguishes three relationship models: emanation, isolation and interference. In the first model—that of emanation—the building plays the role of a symbol of culture within its surrounding urban space. In the second model—that of isolation—the museum has the character of a hidden space, separated from the outside world, accessible only to a specific group. In the third model, the external public space becomes incorporated into the construction or introduced into the space of the museum. This reflection leads to the statement that interference, in the case of museum buildings, is primarily associated with the visitor’s journey. It is the manner of shaping the exhibition path of the museum that causes public space and museum space to overlap.
- Record ID
- CUT253bb68d496348509a6cdf7a56b5bc13
- Publication type
- Publication categories
- ; ;
- Author
- Pages
- 41-66
- Other elements of collation
- il. (gł. kolor.); Bibliografia (na s.) - 64; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.
- Book
- Butelski Kazimierz Kazimierz Butelski (eds.): Architecture as a dialogue of cultures. 2, 2020, Cracow, Politechnika Krakowska im. Tadeusza Kościuszki, Wydaw. PK, 77, [6] p., ISBN 978-83-66531-09-3
- Keywords in English
- museum, architecture, public space
- Language
- eng (en) English
- Score (nominal)
- 20
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUT253bb68d496348509a6cdf7a56b5bc13/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUT253bb68d496348509a6cdf7a56b5bc13
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