1.5 Architectural Scope of Museum

Museum architecture not only provides the material-built contexts within which museums exist, it also crucially adds meaning to the objects and interactions in these ‘spaces of encounter’. The initial observation that objects and collections placed in one context will look, feel and signify differently, when placed in another provides rationale enough to study museum architecture. Similarly, it has been found that the built, designed forms of museums and galleries are bound up in visitors’ experiences in complex and significant ways; the evidence available suggest that as visitors move through museums, they map their experiences physically, as well as emotionally and imaginatively. Furthermore, museum professionals - the people who occupy these spaces on a daily basis - utilize the architecture of museums in all kinds of ways. In the process they shape the materiality of these sites, adding meaning to different kinds of relationships and spaces in all kinds of contingent and unpredictable ways as they go.

Architectural form and elements depicting in the style and spatial configuration in the design of the

museum.