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Open Storage: Museological Artefacts Will Outnumber Us
«The project is the result of a study of a composite scenario where partly antagonistic fields must be considered against each other in order to sketch a convincing architectural strategy for an open storage museum programme. These considerations are linked to conservation, curation, archeology, visitors, city development, and the city antiquity. The project uses Lokomotivverkstedet in the Medieval Park in Oslo as a place to study and evolve the architectural strategy. The existing building is approached by focusing on crucial maintenance and repair work. Individual acclimatized storage rooms house the permanent collection. The storages are inserted into the existing building by adding a secondary skeleton-structure. The in-between space of the acclimatized storages and the existing building function as circulation and temporary exhibition space. Museums worldwide typically showcase between 2 and 4 percent of their collections. The remaining 96 percent is hidden in storage, typically in the museum itself or on the outskirts of the city. Museum collections are increasingly digitalized and made “open to the public, accessible and inclusive” as the ICOM museum definition states. Whether digitalized or not, the collections take up a lot of physical space and is inaccessible to the public. The reason for the museums not displaying all their artefacts at once is simple – a limitation of display space and costs in connection to conservation and curated exhibitions. It raises the question if artefacts can be exhibited in a more efficient way so that a greater share of the collections are made physically accessible to the public. If so – how? Is the open storage concept a possibility? And what are the downsides of making larger parts of the collections physically accessible? Big developments, especially initiated by the railway, has worked as catalysts for archeological excavations in Gamle Oslo from mid 1800s. The history of the area of Gamle Oslo, or old Oslo, reaches back to medieval times. The accumulation of ...
Open Storage: Museological Artefacts Will Outnumber Us
«The project is the result of a study of a composite scenario where partly antagonistic fields must be considered against each other in order to sketch a convincing architectural strategy for an open storage museum programme. These considerations are linked to conservation, curation, archeology, visitors, city development, and the city antiquity. The project uses Lokomotivverkstedet in the Medieval Park in Oslo as a place to study and evolve the architectural strategy. The existing building is approached by focusing on crucial maintenance and repair work. Individual acclimatized storage rooms house the permanent collection. The storages are inserted into the existing building by adding a secondary skeleton-structure. The in-between space of the acclimatized storages and the existing building function as circulation and temporary exhibition space. Museums worldwide typically showcase between 2 and 4 percent of their collections. The remaining 96 percent is hidden in storage, typically in the museum itself or on the outskirts of the city. Museum collections are increasingly digitalized and made “open to the public, accessible and inclusive” as the ICOM museum definition states. Whether digitalized or not, the collections take up a lot of physical space and is inaccessible to the public. The reason for the museums not displaying all their artefacts at once is simple – a limitation of display space and costs in connection to conservation and curated exhibitions. It raises the question if artefacts can be exhibited in a more efficient way so that a greater share of the collections are made physically accessible to the public. If so – how? Is the open storage concept a possibility? And what are the downsides of making larger parts of the collections physically accessible? Big developments, especially initiated by the railway, has worked as catalysts for archeological excavations in Gamle Oslo from mid 1800s. The history of the area of Gamle Oslo, or old Oslo, reaches back to medieval times. The accumulation of ...
Open Storage: Museological Artefacts Will Outnumber Us
Svarstad, Silje Breistein (author) / Hølmebakk, Beate / Engh, Chris-Johan
2022-12-01
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