Museums are developing spaces to support lifelong learning for audiences of all ages and backgrounds. These auxiliary spaces include seminar rooms, classrooms, research laboratories, libraries, resource centers, theaters, cloak rooms, lunch rooms, cafes, and spaces for preparation and storage. The document discusses how museums are increasingly investing in specialized educational spaces beyond the galleries to better facilitate communication, learning experiences, and housing of collections.

1. MUSEUM AUXILIARY SPACES

2. AUXILIARY SPACE
◈Refers to an interior space functioning in a
supporting capacity.
Example
"the main library and its auxiliary branches"

3. SPACES AND FACILITIES FOR MUSEUM LEARNING
by Heather Maximea
◈Museums in every country are developing an understanding
of lifelong learning, and extending the notion of education in
museum to a wider audience, of all age groups and levels of
literacy and formal educational understanding. Inviting this
wider audience into the museum, and giving them food for
thought they have crave, is seen to be the only real way to
build a new museum-going public that supports museum
ideals place. In turn, this means that the demand for special
spaces in museums, with dedicated orientation to learning
programs and needs, is also on the increase. 3

4. Galleries, lobbies, theaters, outdoor trails and sculpture gardens all provide
a setting for communication and for formal and informal learning as well as
aesthetic and contemplative experiences.
PRIMARY SPACES

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In addition to the spaces that house and interpret museum collections,
museum increasingly invest in specialized spaces for education, ranging
from seminar rooms, classrooms and research laboratories to “discovery
rooms”, libraries and resource centers, theaters and suites of auxiliary space
including lunchrooms, cloakrooms, and preparation and storage facilities.
Innovations such as railway museum cars and museumobiles also have their
place in the development of interpretative and educational facilities. A
primary distinction in museum spaces devoted to learning can be made
between in- gallery facilities, education facilities that are external to the
galleries and auxiliary and support facilities.

6. MUSEUM AUXILIARY SPACES
◈Seminar Rooms
◈Classrooms
◈Research Laboratories
◈Libraries
◈Resource Centers
◈Theaters
◈Cloak Rooms
◈Lunch Rooms
◈Cafés
◈Preparation and Storage
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7. Seminar rooms /Classrooms
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Research Laboratories

8. Library
Resource Center

9. Theater
Cloak Room

10. Lunch Room
Cafe

11. PREPARATION AND STORAGE

12. THE END
◈JACQUELYN TRIO
◈LYZA GRACE NACION
◈ROSE ANN VILLANUEVA
TARMAN AROLLADO