Keeping Culture: The Architecture of Storage looks behind the gallery walls at the spaces where museums and archives keep the vast majority of their collections.
About This Book
Only a small share of any museum or archive collection is ever on display; the rest waits in storage, often for decades. As collections keep growing, that hidden warehousing has become harder to sustain and harder to ignore, turning storage from a technical matter into an architectural one. Edited by Susan Holden and Ashley Paine of the University of Queensland, this collection of essays examines the scale and significance of contemporary storage facilities and the recent turn towards visible and visitable stores. It also sets that trend against the longer history of the museum and the architectural experiments that have shaped the work of keeping things.
Key Features
- Essays on storage as a central, rather than peripheral, architectural question
- Contributors include Wouter Davidts, Carroll Go-Sam, Owen Hopkins, Marina Otero Verzier, Deyan Sudjic and Albena Yaneva
- Published in Valiz's vis-à-vis series with the University of Queensland's School of Architecture, Design and Planning
- Illustrated in black and white
What You'll Discover
- Why open and visible storage has become a priority for museums
- How storage design bears on conservation, access and institutional accountability
- The ways storage has disrupted and reshaped museum architecture over time
- What the architecture of keeping reveals about how cultural heritage is valued
About the Author
Susan Holden and Ashley Paine are architecture academics at the University of Queensland's School of Architecture, Design and Planning, where the research behind this book was developed.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Dimensions: 166 × 234 mm
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789493246553
- Publisher: Valiz
Perfect For: Architects, museum professionals, curators, conservators and students of heritage and museum studies.