Personally, this reading has been one of my favourites. Not
only have we covered museum space and how to move around a gallery in two
projects in university but I have a strong interest in it myself. Exploring how
people move around a space is something that can be explored in great depth.
When entering museums or galleries in the past I have always been someone to
look at the art work, having studied Fine Art at A Level, it has always been
something that has interested me. However, after studying Interior Architecture
at university, I now have a completely different approach when entering the
space; it’s not so much the artwork I look at but the building itself. I look
at how the art is places in such a way that the viewer moves in a certain way.
After tonnes of research within my studio work, I feel like a have a clearer
understanding of how to create a gallery or museum space within a
building/outer shell.
Within the text, two of my favourite museums are spoken
about, the Tate Modern and the Tate Britain. Two prime examples (especially the
Tate Modern) of exhibition spaces that are constantly changing within a
building that does not. It was interesting to see all the floor plans of both
museums and how the author spoke about moving through the space. It was
fascinating to compare these museums to others, and see how the space inside
each building had been used differently. It was also of interest to see how the
art work itself had been displayed in order to emphasise the work that is being
displayed within the museum.
I felt that I learnt a lot from the article. Although
studying gallery and museum spaces in great detail in first and second year,
it’s safe to say there is a lot more that goes into the thought process of
creating a museum space, in a way that displays the work appropriately and also
allows the public to flow through the space perhaps chronologically if that is
the way the artist intended.
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