Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts Projects Buildings is a follow-up exhibition of the highly successful exhibition Museums for a New Millennium: Concepts, Projects, Buildings, which travelled to numerous museums throughout Europe, North America, Japan and Korea.
This exhibition is a reflection on the undiminished museum building boom since 2000, in the construction of new museums and in the renovation and expansion of existing institutions.
Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts Projects Buildings presents the most important trends in museum architecture, illustrated by 27 of the world’s leading museum building projects realized since the turn of the century, thereby documenting the increasing international exchange. All projects are represented by a carefully made selection of sketches and architectural plans, photographs and models, as well as multimedia displays.
A highlight in the itinerary as well as in the exhibition itself is the Museum Island in Berlin, or to be more precise, the Pergamon Museum. The Museum Island is the most ambitious and challenging museum project to date in Europe in the 21st century, and therefore, a most suitable host location for the exhibition.
The catalogue is published by Prestel Publishing, Munich, and includes four introductory essays on the general situation of museum construction in Europe, the United States, Japan and Australia, written by Dr. Gottfried Knapp, Munich (Europe), Dr. James Russell, New York (USA), Prof. Hiroyuki Suzuki, Tokyo (Japan) and Prof. Leon Paroissien, Canberra (Australia).
Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts Projects Buildings is available for 10- to 12-week periods per venue.
The European tour started in April 2006. It is followed by a North American tour beginning March 2009.
Exhibition open for booking.
An Art Centre Basel production. Curators: Suzanne Greub, Christine Gisi
Anamorphosis Architects: Museum of the Hellenic World, Athens, Greece
Ando, Tadao: Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan
Aoki, Jun: Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
atelier brückner, ART+COM: New conception of the BMW museum, Munich, Germany
Ban, Shigeru / de Gastines, Jean: Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, Lothringen, France
Botta, Mario, MART: Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
Braunfels, Stephan: Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Chipperfield, David: Museumsinsel Berlin (Masterplan), Berlin, Germany 1. David Chipperfield Eingangsgebäude und Archäologische Promenade 2. David Chipperfield Neues Museum 3. Hilmer & Sattler und Albrecht Altes Museum 4. H.G. Merz Alte Nationalgalerie 5. Heinz Tesar Bodemuseum 6. Oswald Mathias Ungers Pergamonmuseum
Cloepfil, Brad / Allied Works Architecture: University of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Coop Himmelb(l)au: Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France
Denton Corker Marshall Group: Stonehenge Visitor Centre and Interpretive Museum, Wiltshire, UK
Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Eyebeam, New York, NY, USA
Gehry, Frank O.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
Gigon, Annette / Guyer, Mike: Varusschlacht im Osnabrücker Land GmbH, Museum und Park Kalkriese, Bramsche-Kalkriese, Germany
Hadid, Zaha: MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
Holl, Steven: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art expansion, Kansas City, MO, USA
Kurokawa, Kisho: The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Libeskind, Daniel: Extension of the Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
Maki, Fumihiko: Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo, Shimane, Japan
Nouvel, Jean: Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France
Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
Spacelab, Peter Cook / Colin Fournier: Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Taniguchi and Associates: Expansion of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Bernard Tschumi Architects with Michael Photiadis, ARSY, Athens: The New Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece
UN Studio, Ben van Berkel / Caroline Bos: Mercedes Benz Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
Viñoly, Rafael: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
Wood / Marsh Pty Ltd. Architecture: ACCA, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
