Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Museums for the New Millennium

With museums these days as much a space for leisure as culture, the role and functioning of these institutions has been thoroughly reconsidered in recent years. This show in Lisbon's main cultural centre presents for consideration 24 major museums conceived and created in the past decade. They including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Tate Modern, and the Centro Cultural de Belém itself. In almost all cases there's a fascinating interplay between the architecture and what goes on inside.