Architecture, collection and public in contemporary museum

Abstract

The article’s main objective is to study the changes in the museum space in contemporaneity, due to the general use of technological, scenographic and interactive resources, such as videos and multimedia activities, attempting to improve the communication channel between institution and its public. Then, three examples of museums have been selected to enrich the reflection: The Museum of the Portuguese Language (São Paulo, 2006), The Football Museum (São Paulo, 2008)and The Museum of Cinema (Turin, 2000). The three museums chosen represent the use of new technologies for the exhibition of the intangible heritage in recent decades. Looking at these museums, it is possible to see new possibilities opened for the heritage preservation. New relations between public, museum collections and architectural space are possible. For this purpose, this article will try to answer the following questions: what are the new possibilities offered by the relation between architecture and new technologies? Could we think about a new place for artistic experimentation? What is the architecture´s role due to the collection´s dematerialization and the massive use of technological resources? Therefore, three main points will be developed: architecture, collection and public, trying to understand the contemporary museum’s new problematics.