Keeping Culture
The Architecture of Storage
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Redactie: Susan Holden, Ashley Paine
Bijdragen: Wouter Davidts, Carroll Go-Sam, Susan Holden, Owen Hopkins, Valerie November, Marina Otero-Verzier, Ashley Paine, Scott W. Perkins, Deyan Sudjic, Julian Worrall, Albena Yaneva
Ontwerp: Sam de Groot
Serie: Serie vis-à-vis
Partner: University of Queensland, School of Architecture, Design and Planning
November 2025, Valiz | c. 240 blz. | pb | Engels | 23,4 x 16,6 cm (h x w) | ISBN 978-94-93246-55-3 | € 26,50
Museums and archives are repositories for our cultural heritage, besides having many other tasks. These collections are often vast, and only a fraction can be shown at one time. The majority of stored objects will never or very seldomly be presented to a wider audience. This is not only an issue of workforce, but also of the collection’s architecture or spatial structure and the institute’s mission and ambitions. In recent years, visible and visitable storage strategies have gained traction with museums, promising to increase the accessibility of reserve collections, while also announcing newfound institutional transparency and public accountability for those objects in their care.
Keeping Culture explores the scope, scale, and significance of contemporary cultural storage facilities, providing new insights into their implications for collecting, conservation, and for our broader understanding of cultural heritage. It also brings this current interest in visible and open storage design into dialogue with the spatial evolution and programmatic disruptions that have defined the history of museums, and the architectural experiments that have accompanied the cultural work of keeping things.
