Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts Projects Buildings
A follow-up exhibition to “Museums for a New Millennium: Concepts, Projects, Buildings”
Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts Projects Buildings is a follow-up 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.
The follow-up exhibition is a reaction to the undiminished museum building boom reflected in the establishment and construction of new museums since 2000, in the renovation and expansion of existing institutions and in the conversion of old industrial monuments to museums.
Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts Projects Buildings will present 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 will be represented by a carefully made selection of sketches and architectural plans, photographs and models, as well as multimedia displays.
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). Each of the projects in the exhibition is commented by a carefully selected group of architectural historians and critics who discuss the projects in the context of their cultural and urban environment. A further thematic focus is the relation between architecture and fine arts and the issue concerning museum functionality in modern times.
Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts Projects Buildings will be 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 February 2009.
Exhibition open for booking.
An Art Centre Basel production.
Idea and concept: Suzanne Greub and Thierry Greub, Art Centre Basel
Realisation: Christine Gisi, Art Centre Basel
- 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
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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
- Tschumi, Bernard / Photiadis, Michael: 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
