Building Type Basics for Museums

by Arthur Rosenblatt (RKK&G Museum and Cultural Facilities Consultants)

• ISBN13: 9780471349150
• ISBN10: 0471349151
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Here's the essential information you need to initiate designs for art, science, and natural history museums, ethnic art and cultural centers, youth museums, and more. Filled with project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details. Combines in-depth coverage of the structural, mechanical, acoustic, traffic, and safety issues that are unique to museums and cultural facilities with the nuts-and-bolts design guidelines that will start any project off on the right track and keep it there through completion. Order your copy today!

Author Biography

ARTHUR ROSENBLATT, FAIA, of RKK&G Museum and Cultural Facilities Consultants, is an architect and consultant who specializes in museums and cultural facilities. He was Vice Director, then Vice President of Architecture and Planning at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has also served as Director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Vice President of the Grand Central Partnership, and President of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
Thomas Hoving
Preface	vi
Stephen A. Kliment
Acknowledgments	viii
Art Museums	1	(152)
Urban Museum Recast Grand Louvre, Paris, France	2	(12)
New Mega-Museum The Getty Center, Brentwood, Los Angeles, California	14	(18)
Museum Exploits Unique Rural Site Miho Museum, Shiga, Japan	32	(7)
A Regional Art Museum Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico	39	(9)
Big-City Museum with Ongoing Expansion Program The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York	48	(12)
Art Museum in Downtown Location Kiasma Museum for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland	60	(8)
Addition to Prominent Historic Museum Building Sainsbury Wing/National Gallery, London, England	68	(10)
University Art Museum Addition Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts	78	(11)
Recreating an Art Museum Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington	89	(11)
New Museum Spurs Economic Development Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico	100	(18)
Mixed Use: Museum and Hotel Combined Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Naoshima, Japan	118	(6)
Satellite Museum as Symbol of Civic Rebirth Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain	124	(14)
Big-City Art Museum San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California	138	(15)
History Museums	153	(44)
Special-Interest Museum and Cultural Icon The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, Ohio	154	(8)
Museum as Memorial The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.	162	(14)
Armed Forces Museum American Air Museum, Duxford, England	176	(7)
Vernacular History Recalled Route 66 Museum, Clinton, Oklahoma	183	(4)
Museum Focused on Research and Teaching McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal, Quebec, Canada	187	(10)
Children's and Yout Museums	197	(16)
Culture for Kids Children's Museum of Houston, Houston, Texas	198	(6)
Children's Museum Minnesota Children's Museum, St. Paul, Minnesota	204	(9)
Science and Natural History Museums	213	(14)
Outer Space on Earth Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space, New York, New York	214	(7)
Science in the West Arizona Science Center, Phoenix, Arizona	221	(6)
Specialized Museums and Galleries	227	(22)
Urban Zoo Renovated Central Park Wildlife Center and Wildlife Gallery, New York, New York	228	(5)
Small Museum for Limited Collection Beyeler Foundation Museum, Basel, Switzerland	233	(9)
Specialized Collection Jack and Belle Linsky Galleries, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York	242	(7)
Technical Notes	249	(4)
Lighting	250	(1)
Mechanical/Electrical and Environmental Systems	251	(1)
Security	252	(1)
Fire Protection	252	(1)
Glossary	253	(2)
Bibliography	255	(2)
Index	257