The Architecture of the Museum Symbolic Structures, Urban Contexts

by Giebelhausen, Michaela

• ISBN13: 9780719056109
• ISBN10: 0719056101
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-08
• Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr

Summary

Every city has at least one, and great cities often have more. From the Louvre to the Bilbao Guggenheim, the museum has had a long-standing relationship with the city. This ground-breaking volume examines the meaning of museum architecture in the urban environment, considering important issues such as forms of civic representation, urban regeneration, cultural tourism and the museumification of the city itself. Bringing together an international group of distinguished scholars from a range of disciplines, this volume bridges the gap between museum studies and traditional architectural history. The contributors explore the conceptual architectural frameworks that govern the museum's diverse symbolic structures and focus attention on the complex ways in which museums function in the city. Ranging from the 17th century to the present day, the detailed and thoroughly researched case studies are drawn from Great Britain, continental Europe, South America and Australia.

Author Biography

Michaela Giebelhausen is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Essex.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
List of contributors	xi
Introduction: the architecture of the museum -- symbolic structures, urban contexts	1	(16)
Michaela Giebelhausen
PART I CAPITAL ASPIRATIONS -- URBAN REIMAGING
The Kunstkamera of Tsar Peter the Great (St Petersburg 1718--34): King Solomon's house or repository of the four continents?	17	(15)
Debora J. Meijers
The wrong twigs for an eagle's nest? Architecture, nationalism and Sir Hugh Lane's scheme for a Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, 1904--13	32	(22)
Neil Sharp
Exhibiting antipodean narratives: tracing the Perth museum site	54	(21)
Hannah Lewi
Symbolic capital: the Frankfurt museum boom of the 1980s	75	(33)
Michaela Giebelhausen
On the beach: art, tourism and the Tate St Ives	108	(19)
Chris Stephens
PART II VISIBLE HISTORIES -- INVISIBLE HISTORIES
'Passionless reformers': the museum and the city in utopia	127	(17)
Nicole Pohl
The return of the Muses: Edinburgh as a Museion	144	(16)
Volker M. Welter
The space of history: modern museums from Patrick Geddes to Le Corbusier	160	(23)
Anthony Vidler
Brasilia, a national capital without a national museum	183	(23)
Valerie Fraser
'Where oppositions disintegrate and grow complicated': the Maeght Foundation	206	(18)
Jan Birksted
Select bibliography	224	(17)
Index	241