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Discussion: Dancing Rounds Soft Footedly: The Museum as a Place to Enthuse?
Around 700 BC, Hesiod saw maidens dancing soft footedly about a spring on Mount Helicon. Later, a shrine was erected there dedicated to the muses. Oth...
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Reports: A Hundred Days at the “Zollverein” – Architecture and Design at Europe’s Most Attractive Coal Mine
Coal was mined and processed at the “Zoll-verein” for 136 years, down to its closure in 1986. With the construction of the Zollverein School and the o...
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Extension of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta
Originally erected in 1926, the museum has undergone a number of extensions (the last by Richard Meier in 1983). Renzo Piano’s comprehensive reo...
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Museum Typology –An Outline of Architectural History
The history of the museum as a building type has its beginnings in the Renaissance. The courtyard created in the Belvedere of the Vatican by Donato Br...
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Musée du quai Branly in Paris
In the 1990s, a grand ethnological museum was conceived for Paris to house the collections of the Musée de l’Homme and the Musée des Arts d&rsqu...
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MUSAC Art Forum in León
The new museum for modern art in León is a symbol of the cultural regeneration of Castile. Consisting of a concrete structure filled with whitish tran...
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