What will museums of the future be like? Three key takeaways from a new book
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- 08 Feb 2023
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András Szántó spoke to 21 architects about how museum architecture is shaping up, here are some of his findings
In his 2020 book, The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, the cultural strategist András Szántó spoke to museum directors around the world and discovered that institutions were “turning more democratic, community-focused, equity minded, culturally inclusive, and experiential, among other pivots”. For his latest book, Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects, Szántó spoke with David Chipperfield, Frida Escobedo and David Adjaye, among others, to find out “how the momentous changes of our era” are shaping museum architecture. Below he outlines three key takeaways.
First, architecture can be a counterpart to the evolving museology by shaping institutions that are more flexible, porous, human-centred, culturally responsive and ecologically responsible than previously. There appears to be a parallel aspiration in both architecture and in museums to turn hierarchical institutions into more lateral ones. If museum directors are urging museums to “get off their pedestals”, as one of them put it, architects are working to turn museums from “temples on a hill” to more welcoming spaces that are closely woven into the social, cultural, and natural fabric surrounding them. Read More…
