Directory of Exhibition Resources

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Buildings created to display objects to the public: museums, art galleries, exhibition halls.

Resources in This Category

• ArchitectureWeek: Foster and Partners Roof the Great Court

  http://www.architectureweek.com/2001/0214/design_1-1.html
  Don Barker explains the history of the great neoclassical British Museum designed by Robert Smirke in the context of the new steel and glass roof.

• Art Galleries and Museums

  http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/types/gallery.html
  Information on the architect, location, date, construction system, context and style of a world selection from Great Buildings Online.

• Exhibition and Exposition

  http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/types/exhibition.html
  Great Buildings Online provides images and information on a selection of buildings in Europe, North American and Japan designed for exhibition purposes.

• The British Museum: History

  http://www.britishmuseum.org/the_museum/history_and_the_building/general_history.aspx
  The official site gives a history and an historic image of the buildings at its core designed by Sir Robert and Sidney Smirke and erected between the 1820s and 1850s.

• The Crystal Palace

  http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/london/model/
  Computer models of this Victorian marvel designed by Joseph Paxton from the University of Virginia, with an illustrated account of its history and construction.

• The Crystal Palace Foundation

  http://www.crystalpalacefoundation.org.uk/
  Group dedicated to preserving the history of the Crystal Palace, who have created a museum on the site. Includes images and a history of the building after the Great Exhibition closed in October 1851.

• The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

  http://www.imj.org.il/eng/shrine/building.html
  The Shrine of the Book, erected in 1965 for the preservation and exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Brief illustrated history of this remarkable building designed by American-Jewish architects A.Bartos and F. Kiesler.

• The Natural History Museum: History and Architecture

  http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/history-architecture/
  An illustrated outline from the official site of the remarkable Victorian buildings in South Kensington, designed by Waterhouse and decorated with carvings of animals and plants.

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