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Some of the sanctity of the church, the formality of the courtroom, the mystique of the experimental laboratory joins with chic design to produce a unique chamber of esthetics. Inside the White Cube, Brian OТDoherty. A tour around the ideal space for exhibiting art The museum is situated on the edge of a lake in a spacious, old park with a view across the water. It houses a collection of modern art by international artists. It is not merely an experience in modern and contemporary art, but a reflection of the interplay between art, architecture and landscape. The park serves as an ideal setting for displaying the museumТs collection of modern sculptures. Similarly the museum buildings offer a fascinating background for the permanent collection of twentieth century art. Both the buildings and the collection are owned by the museum and it has been built in eight stages between 1958 and 1998. The total area covered by these buildings is 22,500 square metres, of which 17,500 square metres are used for exhibition purposes. The museum is entered through the original building which faces an industrial part of the city. This first section of the museum is above ground and the visitors can proceed upstairs into the upper galleries or underground into the lower galleries which form a subterranean structure that snakes throughout the complex breaking the surface at certain points to facilitate access to the sculpture park. A Georgian style manor house has also been preserved within the grounds of the park and this contains a eccentric collection of arts and craft displayed in a domestic setting where important works of art can be viewed alongside craft and design. Originally, the museum was to be housed in a new building on a site south of the train station. However, implementing the plans of the architect would have exceeded the allotted budget by far. After long and heated debate, the idea of a new construction was abandoned. Instead, a historic monument was chosen - the vast edifice of a former munitions factory, was to become the home of the extended museum. The architects undertook planning, reconstruction and renovation, converting a structure of dominating, static monumentality into a building ideally suited to presenting advanced technologies and artistic experiments. In the early phases of its founding and construction, the museumТs offices were scattered across the entire city. The permanent collection is displayed in a logical progression of rooms. The museum has an impressive entrance with large glass window frontage which because of the museumТs position on a hill above the city is visible from many locations. On entering the space there is a large atrium where the foyer is housed, this tall, light space gives a huge impact whilst providing the necessary access to all floors. Another part of the museum is housed next door in a former wool-spinning mill that has been transformed by the architects into a space where contemporary art can be seen at its best. The vast, light main area of the enormous old factory and the intimate Сwool-storage rooms' constitute a beautiful environment for the many works of art. The collection includes important works from younger as well as older artists. In addition to a fairly permanent display of work from the collection, three large and several smaller exhibitions are organized annually. Visitors enter this part of the museum through the original entranceway. Via an expanded lobby, they have direct access to the renovated exhibition areas of the old museum, the new library, and a new foyer leading to the new museum. Using a grand staircase or the lift, visitors descend to a connecting foyer in the basement. Both the new exhibition wing as well as the new building section with facilities for the public's use can be reached from here. The interior is a balanced variety of vast high-ceilinged spaces versus smaller and more intimate places. Despite its monumental character, the new building maintains the human dimensions so characteristic of the former building. Massive installations or sizable exhibitions as well as smaller intimate projects - such as showings of prints and drawings - can all be presented thanks to the variety of the exhibition areas. This part of the museum also has a whole range of facilities which include an auditorium and an education centre, which will accommodate a wide spectrum of public events. The library, in its striking new home, ranks among the leading scholarly centres for the visual arts in the world. The main exhibition gallery faces you at the far end of the building. The space can be freely partitioned by using twenty suspended panels. It is an ideal space for exhibiting works of art such as paintings, photographs, or sculptures. The gallery has controllable natural light and can be blacked out to enable video works to be projected. This exhibition gallery also has an internet location which amalgamates a physical and virtual environment, relating contemporary visual arts with the information technology revolution. The museum has established an education programme that emphasizes the creative process and its positive effect on problem-solving in daily life and other academic areas. The museum aggressively educates and encourages viewers - regardless of prior experience - to examine the relevance of art and creativity in their own lives. Its confirmed belief is that contact with experimental work allows viewers to explore and to more directly access their own experience than is generally possible in a traditional museum setting. By collecting permanent installations, it has also established a frame of reference for seeing and understanding contemporary works. In the process, the museumТs expansion is energising its neighborhood on the cityТs north side. It identifies properties, dispersed throughout the community, that do not contribute to the economic, social or cultural benefit of the area. It then acquires and rehabilitates selected buildings as exhibition sites, artist housing and rental properties both to improve the neighborhood and to support its artistic programme. The museum is also a research and development lab for artists, it commissions new site-specific works, presents them to the widest possible audience, and maintains selected individual installations in a growing and distinctive permanent collection. Its work combines production and research, exhibitions and events, co-ordination and documentation. The museumТs physical and organisational environments have grown out of and in response to a central focus on the process of creativity. Professional artists, at varying stages in their careers, experiment with ideas and materials within an integrated residency and exhibition programme. In spaces that function equally well as private working studios and as public exhibition spaces, each artist receives an uncommon level of curatorial support. The museum combines white cube neutral spaces with other areas that challenge the exhibiting artists. Twenty five artists can be housed within the various buildings and are provided with accommodation, subsistence and a materials allowance to carry out their work. In addition their studios are usually housed in or near to the spaces that they will exhibit in at the end of their residency which enable them to spend invaluable time getting to know the space or constructing complicated site specific work that would not otherwise have been possible. This overview highlights how the museum is attempting to create the ideal environment to exhibit, produce and archive contemporary art. In the future it will continue to respond to the rapid developments in information technology and today's changing social structures and will establish itself as the most important museum and art institution in the world. A fictional construct based on descriptions of five key art institutions. Eamon OТKane, 2004. First published in Space: Architecture for Art, ed. 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