RE-DEFINING COMMUNICATION IN CONTEMPORARY MUSEUMS

Abstract

The idea of the museum is one rooted within a setting – a place for the Muses. It was a place
to communicate the different areas of interest represented by the Muses, thus having the authenticity of
the setting as its intrinsic quality. To understand the communication within this museum setting is to
emphasize its perceptive and reflective capacities, therefore to translate it to a sensorial and intellectual
exchange. These sensorial and atmospheric qualities embodied in the museum communication have
their equivalent in the architectural space of the contemporary museum - the envelope of museum
space can be considered to attribute and mediate museum communication. The aim of this research is
to recognize these specificities in the contemporary museum and to abstract the qualities anticipating
the future museum.