- Editorial:
- EDITORIAL GG, S.L.
- Año de edición:
- 2004
- ISBN:
- 978-84-252-1924-5
- Páginas:
- 156
- Colección:
- VARIAS
MUSEUMS FOR THE 21 CENTURY
MONTANER, JOSEP MARIA
Contents:
Introduction
The museum as an extraordinary organism
The evolution of the box
The minimalist object
The "museum museum"
The self-involved museum
The museum as a collage of fragments
The anti-museum
Forms of dematerialisation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Photographic credits
If since the end of the 18th century and throughout the nineteenth the museum was consolidated as a new public institution, at the beginning of the 21st century the museum has become a place for the massive influx of an active public and has become integrated into consumer culture in its broadest sense. The museum's relationship with the city and society, as a generator of large urban spaces and a magnet for tourists, has also contributed to the total mutation of the museum's traditional building type.
Profusely illustrated with examples of recent museums, this book is organised into eight chapters, each describing one of the eight trends that can be considered the predominant forms of contemporary museums.
