Building type basics for museums / Arthur Rosenblatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenblatt, Arthur.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Building type basics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museum buildings--Designs and plans.

Museum buildings.

Genre:

Architectural drawings.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 262 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Wiley, 2001.

Summary:

Here's the essential information you need to initiate designs for art, science, and natural history museums, ethnic art and cultural centers, youth museums, and more. Filled with project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details. Combines in-depth coverage of the structural, mechanical, acoustic, traffic, and safety issues that are unique to museums and cultural facilities with the nuts-and-bolts design guidelines that will start any project off on the right track and keep it there through completion.

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Contents:

Chapter 1 Art Museums 1

Urban Museum Recast - Grand Louvre, Paris, France 2

New Mega-Museum - The Getty Center, Brentwood, Los Angeles, California 14

Museum Exploits Unique Rural Site - Miho Museum, Shiga, Japan 32

A Regional Art Museum - Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico 39

Big-City Museum with Ongoing Expansion Program - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York 48

Art Museum in Downtown Location - Kiasma Museum for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland 60

Addition to Prominent Historic Museum Building - Sainsbury Wing/National Gallery, London, England 68

University Art Museum Addition - Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 78

Recreating an Art Museum - Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington 89

New Museum Spurs Economic Development - Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico 100

Mixed Use: Museum and Hotel Combined - Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Naoshima, Japan 118

Satellite Museum as Symbol of Civic Rebirth - Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain 124

Big-City Art Museum - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California 138

Chapter 2 History Museums 153

Special-Interest Museum and Cultural Icon - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, Ohio 154

Museum as Memorial - The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. 162

Armed Forces Museum - American Air Museum, Duxford, England 176

Vernacular History Recalled - Route 66 Museum, Clinton, Oklahoma 183

Museum Focused on Research and Teaching - McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 187

Chapter 3 Children's and Youth Museums 197

Culture for Kids - Children's Museum of Houston, Houston, Texas 198

Children's Museum - Minnesota Children's Museum, St. Paul, Minnesota 204

Chapter 4 Science and Natural History Museums 213

Outer Space on Earth - Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space, New York, New York 214

Science in the West - Arizona Science Center, Phoenix, Arizona 221

Chapter 5 Specialized Museums and Galleries 227

Urban Zoo Renovated - Central Park Wildlife Center and Wildlife Gallery, New York, New York 228

Small Museum for Limited Collection - Beyeler Foundation Museum, Basel, Switzerland 233

Specialized Collection - Jack and Belle Linsky Galleries, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York 242

Chapter 6 Technical Notes 249

Lighting 250

Mechanical/Electrical and Environmental Systems 251

Security 252

Fire Protection 252.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-256) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0471349151

OCLC:

44270313