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Museum architecture sometimes involves the conversion of old buildings that have outlived their usefulness but that are still of historic interest. A notable example is the Dalí Theatre and Museum or the conversion of the Bankside Power Station designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott into the Tate Modern in 2000, based on design by Herzog & de ...
The British Museum at Montague House: a layout plan, and elevation of the garden facade. Engraving by J. Roffe after A. Pugin, 1823. Iconographic Collections Keywords: Pierre Puget; John Roffe; Augustus Charles Pugin; British Museum (London)
Museum Planning is the creation of documents to describe a new museum’s vision, the visitor experience and an organizational plan for a new institution, or one undergoing a major expansion or change in focus. Museum plans may include some or all of the following: A review of institutional resources, assets and collections
945 Madison Avenue, also known as the Breuer Building, is a museum building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.The Marcel Breuer-designed structure was built to house the Whitney Museum of American Art; it subsequently held a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and from 2021 to March 2024 was the temporary quarters of the Frick Collection while the Henry Clay Frick House ...
The design for the new wing is conceived as a respectful complement to the historic Museum building in scale, form, and materials. The project adds 70,000 square feet (6,500 m 2) consisting of two new buildings. The first building attaches to the original museum and takes on the appearance of four stories in glass and copper.
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The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects. [3] It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert .
The Palazzo Massimo alle Terme is the main of the four sites of the Roman National Museum, along with the original site of the Baths of Diocletian, which currently houses the epigraphic and protohistoric section, Palazzo Altemps, home to the Renaissance collections of ancient sculpture, and the Crypta Balbi, home to the early medieval collection.