MUSEUM TYPOLOGY AND THE ASPECT OF PLACE

Abstract

The paper reviews museum typology and the aspect of place through several
examples, starting with the emergence of museum typology to interpretations addressing
the place. In the examples of the Glyptothek in Munich and the Altes Museum in Berlin,
the aspect of place is registered in the corresponding contexts of the representative museum
buildings. The paper uses a framework for reading the museum’s relation to place through
typological elements and their relation to the specific place, as seen in the example of the
Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart.