http://www.museumdesign.asia Where the experienced talk experiences Thu, 06 May 2010 08:45:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=241 http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=241#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 08:08:39 +0000 Chris White http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=241 I decided to go and have a look at Simon Birch’s (one of Hong Kong’s leading contemporary artists) new multimedia installation project. This from the programme notes referring to that old chestnut Joseph Campbell’s ‘Hero’s Journey’: “In Simon Birch’s intricate, labyrinthine installation project, Hope & Glory, [the] first step of the hero’s journey …. is enacted [...]]]> http://www.museumdesign.asia/?feed=rss2&p=241 0 http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=207 http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=207#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:09:28 +0000 Chris White http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=207 Despite the somewhat tacky entrance sign, The Goldfish Pavilion is a quite elegant addition to the Giant Panda Adventure – forming as it does one side of the fictional mountain village into which visitors emerge after seeing the pandas and other animals. First of all a disclosure: I worked on the interpretive concept with Hypsos Leisure [...]]]> http://www.museumdesign.asia/?feed=rss2&p=207 0 http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=169 http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=169#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:55:26 +0000 Chris White http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=169 Soon after it opening, we got along to the Giant Panda Adventure. First a disclosure – I worked on the interpretive planning throughout the public areas of the attraction with Hypsos Leisure Asia. So, I was keen to see the finished result. We wanted messages about how precious the key endangered species that had been selected [...]]]> http://www.museumdesign.asia/?feed=rss2&p=169 0 http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=155 http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=155#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:42:57 +0000 Chris White http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=155 Based in the converted century-old Lei Yue Mun Fort, this Museum complex consists of two main areas – the Redoubt and the Historical Trail. The Redoubt, built by the British in 1887, was one of the largest fortifications of its kind in the Territory. It now forms the core display area of the Museum and the [...]]]> http://www.museumdesign.asia/?feed=rss2&p=155 0 http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=145 http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=145#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:13:46 +0000 Chris White http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=145 There’s no doubt that Sun Yat-sen got about a bit. It is hard to visit a major city in East Asia that he did not at some point live in, visit or have a cup of tea in. And of course there is something of a tug of war between nations to claim him as [...]]]> http://www.museumdesign.asia/?feed=rss2&p=145 0 http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=140 http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=140#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:48:40 +0000 Chris White http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=140 The mind-bogglingly big National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan is a great example of the adage that when you have a collection of great, authentic objects you can let them speak for themselves. For instance, who can argue with a jadeite cabbage? So the exhibits here are very much conventional art gallery showcases with text-dominated graphic [...]]]> http://www.museumdesign.asia/?feed=rss2&p=140 0 http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=127 http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=127#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:22:45 +0000 Chris White http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=127 These four galleries on the subjects of Fashion, Film, Food and Photography are a delight. Each take a very different interpretive direction but share a commonly refreshing and visually stimulating approach. ‘Fashion – Shopping for Identity’ is characterised by colourful swathes of cloth as a backdrop to exploring the shifting identities of Singaporean women from the [...]]]> http://www.museumdesign.asia/?feed=rss2&p=127 0 http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=112 http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=112#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:34:15 +0000 Chris White http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=112 First of all, it must be said that this gallery in the National Museum of Singapore has ambitions. It takes a bold approach in trying to present Singapore’s history from the 14th century to the modern period over 2,800 square metres with the minimum of text. In fact, I can’t remember actually standing in front [...]]]> http://www.museumdesign.asia/?feed=rss2&p=112 0 http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=109 http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=109#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:47:47 +0000 Chris White http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=109 Once again technology has led one columnist to declare the death of the museum. GoogleEarth and Madrid’s premier art museum The Prado have teamed up to digitise 14 of collection’s masterpieces at a resolution of about 14,000 million pixels (1,400 times more detailed than the image a 10 megapixel digital camera would take). This project [...]]]> http://www.museumdesign.asia/?feed=rss2&p=109 0 http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=105 http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=105#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:31:43 +0000 Chris White http://www.museumdesign.asia/?p=105 I was lucky enough to get a sneak preview of the newest major Premier League club visitor centre in Asia on a recent inspection in December. Now that it’s open I intend to return soon to see how it is being received by the public, but I expect it to be extremely popular – with its [...]]]> http://www.museumdesign.asia/?feed=rss2&p=105 0