Museum-making: Behind and Beyond Architecture Jean-Gabriel Leturcq Museum expert PhD researcher - CEDEJ (Cairo)

Museum-making and Museology Exhibition-design Museum-design Museology Exhibition designers Architects Museum experts Curators Politics, Culture, Economics Institutional Management Scenario and organization of space

Museum-Making, a reflexive process: How do architects and museum curators collaborate in making a museum? How to define priorities of an exhibition scenario? How can joint expertise contribute to the success of an exhibition?

How do architects and museum curators collaborate in making a museum?

How to define priorities of an exhibition scenario?

How can joint expertise contribute to the success of an exhibition?

Museum-making analysis: 1. Institutional process 2. Making the scenario of a Museum exhibition

1. Institutional process

2. Making the scenario of a Museum exhibition

The example of Department of Islamic Arts, Musée du Louvre, Paris 1993: Current exhibition 2009: Planned exhibtion How to make a new museum with an old institution?

Behind the Architecture: Institutional Process Is there is a need for a new museum? Why to make a new museum ?

Is there is a need for a new museum?

Why to make a new museum ?

A history of the exhibition 1925: An encyclopedic Bazaar, sets of the materials

1925: An encyclopedic Bazaar, sets of the materials

A history of the exhibition 1993: A Geo-chronological approach

1993: A Geo-chronological approach

A convincing approach?!?

Institutional process (2) Which collection might be exhibited? Who is going to fund the new museum?

Which collection might be exhibited?

Who is going to fund the new museum?

The Exhibition Design process: How can exhibition design serve the objects? How to translate concepts in the architectural space? How the exhibition design enables the communication between artifacts and visitors?

How can exhibition design serve the objects?

How to translate concepts in the architectural space?

How the exhibition design enables the communication between artifacts and visitors?

The new exhibition space 1993 exhibition: 1300 artifacts on 1 100 m² 2009: 5000 artifacts on 4 000 m² More space, more objects: is the exhibition better?

The Louvre Project Rudy Ricciotti (France) + Mario Bellini (Italy)

‘ Iridescent Cloud’

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‘ luminescent covering’

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The scenario: design as mediation Ground floor Underground floor

‘ An art of the light’ Ground level exhibition

… Underground level exhibition

Conclusions Architectural design is a mediator between the artefacts and the visitors Museum design must respond to artefacts and to an elaborated conceptual program. Architecture must serve the visitor.

Architectural design is a mediator between the artefacts and the visitors

Museum design must respond to artefacts and to an elaborated conceptual program.

Architecture must serve the visitor.

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